Claude Poullart des Places was the young founder of a religious congregation which became the Congregation of the Holy Spirit in France in 1703. As a young man (he founded the congregation when he was just 23), he wrote down many of his prayers as he was trying to discern what to do with his life. Below are some prayers he wrote down that we can borrow for our lives. 

1. "Lord, You were looking for me and I was running away. You gave me reason but I refused it. How loveable you are, my saving God! You do not want my death but only my conversion. You love me, Lord, and You give me so many signs of Your love. For a long time you have wanted to speak to my heart but I did not want to listen. I have not come here to defend myself, I have come to let myself be conquered. Amen."
   
   
2. "Speak to me, Lord, when you like. (...) Speak so that I may now repent of my blindness and renounce with all my heart all those things which made me flee from you. I am ready to search for you, I am ready to follow all your commands. Come into this heart which you have wanted to enter for so long. From now on, I will only listen to you and to those things which will make me love you as I ought…”
   
   
3. “O my God, you are the guide to the heavenly Jerusalem for those who really trust in you, so I am turning to your divine providence. I abandon myself entirely to you. I give up my own inclinations, appetites and will in order blindly to follow yours. Please show me what you want me to do so that I may follow the way of life you have planned for me on this earth. Help me to serve you during my pilgrimage in a way which is agreeable to you and give me all the graces I need to give glory to your divine majesty”.
   
   
4. "It is to you, O my God, that I must turn to make up my mind according to your will. I have come here to take advice from your divine Wisdom. Destroy in me all the worldly attachments that follow me everywhere. May I no longer, in the state I will choose for ever, have any views other than those of pleasing you, and since, in the situation I am, it is impossible for me to decide anything and yet I feel that you want something from me other than my uncertainties, I am going, Lord, to reveal myself without disguise to your ministers.
   
   By your holy grace, may I find an Ananias who will show me the true way, as he did to Saint Paul. I will follow his advice like your commandments. Do not allow me to be deceived, my God. I place all my hopes in you”.
   
   
5. “Most holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, whom I adore, by your help, with all my heart, all my soul and all my strength, I beg you to grant me faith, humility, and chastity, and the grace of not saying, thinking, seeing, hearing or desiring anything except what you want me to do and say...”