Romans 12: 10-16
In the morning
O God, our Father, help us to learn the lessons that life is seeking to teach us. Save us form making the same mistakes over and over again. Save us from falling to the same temptations time an time again. Save us from doing things that we should not do, until the doing of them has become a habit which we can not break. Save us from failing to realize our own weaknesses, and from refusing to see our own faults. Save us from persisting in courses of action which we ought to have learned long ago can lead to nothing but trouble. Save us from doing things which we know annoy other people. Help us daily to grow stronger, purer, kinder. Help us daily to shed old faults and to gain new virtues, until, by Thy grace, life becomes altogether new. Hear this our morning prayer for Thy love's sake. AMEN
In the evening
O God, our Father, we thank Thee for this day. We thank Thee for those we have given us guidance, counsel, advice and good example. We thank Thee for those in whose company the sum shone even in the rain and who brought a smile to our faces even when things were grim. We thank Thee for those in whose company the frightening things were not so alarming, and the hard things not so difficult. We thank Thee for those whose presence saved us from falling to temptation and enabled us to do the right. We thank Thee for those whom it is joy even to be with, and in whose company the hours pass all too quickly. We thank Thee for happy times to be to us for ever happy memories. We thank Thee for times of failure to keep us humble, and to make us remember how much we need Thee. Most of all we thank Thee for Jesus Christ, who in the daytime is our friend and our companion and who in the night is our pillow and our peace. Hear this our evening thanksgiving for Thy love's sake. AMEN
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