Sweet Meditation on God’s Constancy
Asks that meditation on God’s constancy, goodness, and love sustain changing feelings and foster what is good.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
GRANT, Almighty God, that our meditations of Thee this day may be sweet; that pondering upon Thine unchangingness, we may the better bear the changefulness of our lives; thinking of Thy constancy, we may the better bear the fickleness of our feeling; meditating upon the largeness of Thy love, we may the better bear our own coldness. Whatsoever there is in us that is evil, forgive. Whatsoever there is in us that is good, may the circumstances of our life, the friends of our soul, the meditations of our heart foster and enlarge; so that, knowing that which is good in time, we may better hope for what is good in eternity, and rise, through the poor goodness of mortal man, to the understanding of the infinite goodness of the Lord our God.
Comfort us by Thy greatness; uphold us by Thy strength; bring us all, in the fulness of time, into the fulness of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.—AMEN.