Prayer for Heavenly Hope and Patient Daily Work
Ask for patient hearts, willing hands and faithful service grounded in God’s mercy and heavenly hope.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
Our Father, we are nursed in Thine arms, we are rested in the heart of Jesus, so that we know no more the emptiness of earth and the poverty of time, for our citizenship is in heaven, already do we walk the streets of gold. Out of the highest rapture may we come to do earth’s plainest work, earth’s hardest toil, with patient hearts and willing hands, knowing that death can be but for a moment, that all things are meant, in the sovereignty of God to give themselves up to the rule of life. Thus may Thy children be loyal citizens, patient workers, honest merchantmen, wise parents. Be with all men who trust Thee; melt the mountains before their coming, and open the gates of difficulty ere they reach them, and give them to feel that the greatness of Thy mercy is the proof of its divinity. In Jesus’ name. Amen.