Morning Prayer for a Kind and Hospitable Home
Give thanks for home and family and ask for patience, forgiveness and hospitality toward those without a home.
Historical edition. Historical claims and instructions are preserved as historical context.
O God, our Heavenly Father, we thank thee for the blessings of home; for the shelter, safety, and hallowed associations of our domestic habitation; for the sympathy and helpfulness of family relationship. Help us we pray thee to make ours an ideal household, bright with cheerfulness, an exemplification of Christian faith and hope. May the happiness of all be the object of each. To that end help us to be patient toward one another, kind and forgiving. May we realize by many beatific experiences that it is better to give than to receive, better to serve than to be served. May we be disposed, as occasion may arise, to share, for a season, the comfort and inspiration of our home with those who are homeless. We thank Thee for the bright assurance that beyond the fading scenes and transitory experiences of this life, there is, awaiting us, an eternal abiding place in “a continuing city” whose maker and builder is God, where there shall be no more parting, and where the shadows of our present life shall forever flee away. In Jesus’ name. Amen.