Prayer for a Day of Service, Peace and Thanks
Give thanks for rest and ask to meet the day’s duties with joy, helpfulness and peace.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
Almighty God! We thank Thee for the peace and comfort of the night; for the new day and all the hope and peace and promise that it brings to us. Help us that with glad faces and joyous hearts we may take up its every privilege and duty, doing, in the spirit of the Master every good and helpful thing our hands find to do. And when the evening shall have come may we look back on a day of plenty, service, and peace, retiring to our rest with songs in our hearts and thanksgiving on our lips because Thy blessings have been on this, as on all other days new every morning and fresh every evening. In Jesus’ name. Amen.