NIGHT PRAYER: Saturday 4/22

Especially for a friend of mine 
    who's having a very hard time of it right now...

Photo by Michael Paulson

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless,
    - or it is no virtue at all...
As long as matters are still hopeful,
    hope is mere flattery or platitude;
it is only when everything is hopeless
    that hope begins to be your strength.

- G. K. Chesterton

Lord, help me hope for light
    when I'm totally in the dark...

Help me hope for serenity

    in the midst of my distress...

Help me hope for tomorrow
    when I'm locked in my past...

Help me hope for joy

    when sadness consumes me...

Help me hope for understanding
    when I'm lost in confusion...

Help me hope for grace
    when I'm tempted to sin...

Help me hope for love
    when I'm most alone...

Help me hope in faith
    when I'm lost in doubt...

Help me hope for help
when I fear there's none...

Help me hope for strength
    when I'm at my weakest...

Help me hope for hope
    when I'm at a dead end...

And when I feel most hopeless
    help me hope in you, Lord,
        help me find my hope in you...

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.

MMMMMMM

There Is A Hope by Stuart Townend

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