NIGHT PRAYER: Thursday 5/4

Regular readers know that for the past week my prayer posts have centered on my family's loss of my nephew, Michael. My family and I are very grateful for your messages and prayers - the outpouring has been a source of much comfort. It's a blessing, too, to know that these posts have helped many of you in your own grief or that you have passed these prayers on to others you knew might benefit from them. After this post, I'll  be returning to content you're more accustomed to finding here.  Let us all continue to pray for one another!

 

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless

   - or it is no virtue at all... 

As long as matters are really hopeful, 

   hope is mere flattery or platitude; 

it is only when everything is hopeless

   that hope begins to be a strength. 

        - G. K. Chesterton

 

Photo by Michael Paulson

 

Be my hope, Lord,
    be my hope...

Be my hope for light
   when I'm totally in the dark...

Be my hope for serenity
   in the midst of my distress...

Be my hope for tomorrow
   when I'm stuck in yesterday...

Be my hope for healing
   in body, mind and soul...

Be my hope for joy
   when sadness overwhelms me...

Be my hope for understanding
   when I'm lost in confusion...

Be my hope for grace
   when I'm tempted to sin...

Be my hope for pardon
   when I have sinned - and sinned again...

Be my hope for wisdom
   when I’m lost in foolishness...

Be my hope for help
   when I fear there is none...

Be my hope in faith
   when I'm lost in doubt...

Be my hope for love
   when I'm most alone...

Be my hope for hope
   when all my hope is gone...

          Lord Jesus, be my way, my truth, my life:

          Lord Jesus,  be my hope!

          Lord Jesus, hear my prayer! 

 

Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake 

and watch over me while I sleep 

that awake I might keep watch with you 

and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen. 

There Is A Hope by Stuart Townend

 

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