Prayer for the Day: "Your Servant is Listening"

Jesus, thank you for all the ways you have known me, shaped me, and formed me for your purpose. Help me to grow in faithfulness, in clarity of thought and purpose as I learn how to discern your voice calling out to me.

Open my heart to hear you. Speak Lord, for your servant is listening.

I pray for the people of the world who long for Your holy encounter. Show me the way in which I am called as an individual to respond to the many needs of your people.

Open my heart to hear you. Speak Lord, for your servant is listening.

I pray for the nations of the world: for your wisdom to help to solve the problems that are too big and too complex for us, for help in bringing peace where there is no peace, justice where there is no justice, freedom where there is no freedom, and pray that you help us to have a right understanding of what freedom truly is.

Open my heart to hear you. Speak Lord, for your servant is listening. Amen.

Psalm 23 from a Little Princess

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A Little Life, A Tiny Death

“Our Father, each day is a little life, each night a tiny death; help us to live with faith and hope and love. Lift our duty above drudgery; let not our strength fail, or the vision fade in the heat and burden of the day. O God, make us patient and pitiful one with another in the fret and jar of life, remembering that each fights a hard fight and walks a lonely way. Forgive us Lord, if we hurt our fellow souls; teach us a gentler tone, a sweeter charity of words, and a more healing touch. Sustain us, O God, when we must face sorrow; give us courage for the day and hope for the morrow. Day unto day may we lay hold of Thy hand and look up into Thy face, whatever befall, until our work is finished and the day is done. Amen.”

-St. Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226