Prayer for Monday

Lord our God and our Father, we thank You for all the light You let shine on earth to gladden and comfort our hearts. Your light shows us how to live in Your creation with open eyes and open hearts, accepting in a childlike way all the good gifts from Your hand that You in Your love for mankind created for us. How much good You send to many sorrowful hearts, and how much strengthening to those in weakness, poverty, and sickness! Grant that we may recognize what comes from You, that we are not cast down in spirit but mount up again and again on wings like eagles. May we learn to say at all times, “Through how much need has not our merciful God spread out his wings to protect us!” We give You deserved praise, glory and honor, for the sake of Your name and the name above all names, Jesus Christ!

Amen.

Adapted from the Daily Written Prayers of Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, 1842–1919. In Public Domain