Evening Prayer for the day - 30/05/2007 - by William Barclay

O God, our Father, who bid us to pray for all men,

we remember at evening time those who specially need our prayers.

Bless those who are lonely,

and who feel their loneliness worst of all at evening time.

Bless those who are sad,

and who at evening feel most of all the absence of someone whom they loved,

and lost awhile.

Bless those who are ill, and who will not sleep this night;

and those who this night will keep awake to ease the sufferer’s pain.

Bless those who have no home, and no family circle to call their own.

O God, who are everywhere present,

bless this our home, and help us to remember that Jesus is always our unseen guest,

and so help us never in this place to do or to say anything which would make him sad.

Keep us this night in the dark hours,

and grant us kindly sleep,

and make us to feel around us and above us the clasp or your everlasting arms,

which will never let go of us.

Through Jesus Christ our Lord

Amen

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Morning Prayer for the day - 30/05/2007 - by William Barclay

O God, our Father, bless us and keep us all through today.

At our work, make us diligent,

ever showing ourselves to be workmen who have no need to be ashamed.

In our pleasure, help us to find delight only in such things as bring no regrets to follow.

In our homes, make us kind and considerate,

ever trying to make the work of others easier,

and not harder.

In our dealings with our fellow-men, make us courteous and kindly.

In our dealings with ourselves, make us honest to face the truth.

And in every moment of this day make us ever to remember that You,

God, see us, and that in You we love and move and have our being.

So grant that we may not nothing which would bring shame to ourselves,

grief to those who love us, and sorrow to You,

through Jesus our Lord.

Amen

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