Adapted From Treasury of Devotion

O Lord, grant to us so to love You with all our hearts, with all our minds, and all our souls, and our neighbor for Your sake. Grant that the grace of charity and brotherly love may dwell in us, and all envy, harshness, and ill-will may die in us. Fill our hearts with...

Adapted From The Altar at Home (1862)

Our Father, grant us this day the sense of Your presence to cheer and Your light to direct us. Give us strength for Your service. And yet more, Father, give us Your own help and blessing in our sorrows, our faintness, our failure and sin. You know we cannot bear our...

Adapted From St. Augustine (354-430)

O God, the Light of every heart that sees You, the life of every soul that loves You, the strength of every mind that seeks You, grant me to always remain steadfast in Your holy love. Be the joy of my heart; take it all to Yourself, and therein dwell. The house of my...

Adapted From Robert Collper

O Father, this day may bring some difficult task to our life, or some difficult trial to our love. We may grow weary or sad or hopeless in our circumstances. But Father, our whole life until now has been one great proof of Your care. Bread has come for our body,...

Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand

We thank you, O God for your love for us.Love that reaches out to accept us, wherever we are, whoever we are.Love that demands a lot, but at the same time, somehow, amazingly,enables us to meet those demands.Love that reassures, affirms, prompts, challenges, and...

Adapted From James Martineau (1805-1900)

O God, who are and was and is yet to come, before Your face the generations rise and pass away. Age after age the living seek You, and find that of Your faithfulness there is no end. Our fathers in their days on earth walked by Your guidance and rested on Your...