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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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The speaker asks God to preserve a desire for goals that reach beyond what they can complete. The prayer accepts a gap between aspiration and achievement, treating it as something worth continuing to hold rather than something to eliminate. It expresses an ongoing wish to aim higher than one’s present ability allows.
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