Morning Prayer

O God, this new day opens before us

With promise and opportunity.

It is your gift to us;

Help us to make it our gift to you.

The day lies before us;

Like a page waiting to be written.

Save us from scribbling over it

Meaningless marks and idle doodling.

Help us to write somewhere upon it

A poem of praise,

A prayer of compassion,

A significant sentence.

Help us to say less and to mean more,

To make gestures of grace and not of haste.

Give us good words to speak,

Good thoughts to think,

Good deeds to do.

But above all evoke from us praise,

That we may be the best of all givers;

Thanksgivers.

In Jesus’ name,

Amen

From a book “Listening for God’s Silent Language”, Don Osgood