Day 6: Something Loved.
During Lent this year Amy and I decided that we would engage in prayer more as a couple, and it has been quite an awesome experience to wake up every morning and share morning prayers together and end each day with praying evening prayers together before we go to bed. It sets our day in motion by first recognizing the sovereignty of God and when we come home by recognizing what God has done during this day. There is a particular narrative that has blessed me deeply that I would like to share with you.
Morning Prayer
May the peace of the Lord Christ go with you: wherever he may send you; may he guide you through the wilderness: protect you through the storm; may he bring you home rejoicing: at the wonders he has shown you; may he bring you home rejoicing: once again into our doors.
Midday Prayer
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not
so much seek as to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we born to eternal life.
Evening Prayer
O gracious light,
pure brightness of the ever-living Father in heaven,
O Jesus Christ, holy and blessed!
Now as we come to the setting of the sun,
and our eyes behold the evening light,
we sing your praises, O God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
You are worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices,
O Son of God, O Giver of life,
your glory fills the whole world.
O Lord, you have taught us to call the evening, the morning,
and the midday one, and you have made the sun to know its
going down. Dispel now the darkness of our hearts, that by
your brightness we may know you to be the true God and
eternal light, living and reigning forever and ever.
May the Lord bless us and keep us all from harm, and may
God lead us to eternal life. Amen.
I have found that when I don’t do these prayers with Amy that my day is not the same as it would be when I do, do these prayers. I pray today that you are blessed by these prayers because they truly connect us to the ever-living Father through Christ our Lord.
Amen.