Kitty Williams, Director of Music Ministries
New every morning is your love, great God of light, and all day long you are working for good in the world.
Stir up in us desire to serve you, to live peacefully with our neighbors and all your creation, and to devote each day to your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
– An Order for Morning Praise and Prayer, United Methodist Hymnal, 876
I love this prayer because it reminds me that every day God is working out God’s purpose.
It also reminds me that we all need to be a part of God’s work every day.
Sometimes when praying, my prayers sound like a task list for what I want God to do.
It’s almost as if I’m saying “my will be done,” instead of “thy will be done.”
A few weeks ago, we sang the hymn Open My Eyes that I May See.
This is a wonderful morning prayer! I hope you will pray it with me this morning.
Open my eyes, that I may see glimpses of truth thou hast for me;
place in my hands the wonderful key that shall unclasp and set me free.
Silently now I wait for thee, ready, my God, thy will to see.
Open my eyes, illumine me, Spirit divine!
Open my ears, that I may hear voices of truth thou sendest clear;
and while the wavenotes fall on my ear, everything false will disappear.
Silently now I wait for thee, ready, my God, thy will to see.
Open my ears, illumine me, Spirit divine!
Open my mouth, and let me bear gladly the warm truth everywhere;
open my heart and let me prepare love with they children thus to share.
Silently now I wait for thee, ready, my God, thy will to see.
Open my heart, illumine me, Spirit divine!
Amen.
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