The Prayer of Abandonment is a profound act of total surrender to God the Father — not in resignation or defeat, but in the deep, confident trust of a child resting in a father’s hands. It moves through three quiet movements: a willing acceptance of whatever God may do, a commending of the soul into His care, and finally an offering of the heart itself, given freely and without reserve. At its center is a single, radical desire — that God’s will alone be done — and every word flows from that desire with a simplicity that makes the prayer both accessible and inexhaustibly deep.
This prayer was composed by St. Charles de Foucauld, a French soldier turned hermit, martyr of the desert, who lived among the Tuareg people of the Algerian Sahara and was canonized by Pope Francis in 2022.
Prayer of Abandonment
Father, I abandon myself into Your hands;
do with me what You will.
Whatever You may do, I thank You:
I am ready for all, I accept all.
Let only Your will be done in me,
and in all Your creatures.
I wish no more than this, O Lord.
Into Your hands I commend my soul;
I offer it to You with all the love of my heart,
for I love You, Lord,
and so need to give myself, to surrender myself,
into Your hands without reserve,
and with boundless confidence,
for You are my Father.
Amen.