Let no selfish concern with my own affairs, shut me off from any today.

For your love's sake.

Amen.

 

Lord help me to remember that nothing is going to happen to me today that You and I together can't handle.

Amen.

 

Lord, during this day, grant me some moments of stillness; a scallop shell of quiet. Amid the busyness of outward things, keep my heart in pilgrimage.

 

Grant us, O God, a vision of your glory; Your glory in us, and in those whom we shall meet this day, through Jesus Christ or Lord.

 

You who send forth the light, create the morning, make the sun rise on the good and the evil, enlighten the blindness of our minds with the knowledge of the truth; lift up the light of your countenance upon us, that in your light we may see light, and, at the last, be in the light of grace and in the light of glory.

Lancelot Andrewes (1555-1626)

 

All this day, O Lord, let me touch as many lives as possible for thee; and every life I touch, do thou by thy Spirit quicken, whether through the word I speak, the prayer I breathe, or the life I live.

Amen.

The personal prayer of Mary Sumner

(1828-1921) who founded the Mothers' Union.

 

O God, who has folded back the mantle of the night to clothe us in the golden glory of the day, chase from our hearts all gloomy thoughts and make us glad with the brightness of hope.

Ancient collect

 

My life is an instant,

an hour which passes by;

My life is a moment

Which I have no power to stay.

You know, O my God,

That to love you here on earth -

I have only today.

St Therese of Liseux