A Wife’s Prayer for Love and Shared Life
Gives thanks for marital love and asks for help in sharing a husband’s joys and burdens, guiding a household together, and remaining faithful to God.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
HEAVENLY FATHER! I bless Thee for Thy great gift of one to love, and to be beloved by. May this our sweet earthly love be kept ever bright and true by Thy heavenly love, and may this earthly love, so close, so easy to be felt and seen, help us to rise to the knowledge of Thy Love Divine.
Make me a comfort and a help to him whose name I bear; in the day of his weariness make me his rest; in the day of his wickedness, should such a day come, help me to show forth to him the repentance for sin and the pardon thereof. Of all his true joys make me a glad partaker; of all his sorrows make me to share; that so his burdens may be lightened. Help us to govern our household in the Name, and by the Law, of God. Bless the work of our hands. Guide us in life; be with us in death. Receive us together into the land of peace, there to abide with Thee for evermore, through Jesus Christ our Lord.—AMEN.