LORD, We Thank YOU For YOUR Goodness, Always.

Some of Your gifts have 
come to us in strange form!
(J.R. Miller, "Family Prayers")

FATHER, let YOUR face shine upon
our home today. We thank YOU for it.

May it be . . .
  a shelter to us from the world's storms,
  a nest of love,
  a school where we may learn love's
lessons, and where we may grow into
the beauty of Christlikeness.

We pray continually that our home
may become more and more like Heaven.
Teach all of us how to live, so as
to add to its sweetness.

Come and be a guest in our home.
Then its love will become sweeter,
and more and more holy. For YOUR
presence gives light, blessing, and joy.

Make our home, YOUR home. Dwell
with us. Then we shall be happy.
Then we shall live beautifully together.

We thank YOU for YOUR goodness
to us this past week. YOU have
showered YOUR blessings upon
us with a most bountiful hand.

YOU have given us favors of many
kinds. Some of Your gifts have 
come to us in strange form--
in trials, in burdens, in disappointments,
in losses. Still we know that they are
YOUR gifts, and as such, have in
them good and blessing for our lives.

Give us grace to accept whatever
YOU send to us, knowing that YOUR
love can never give us anything but
kindness. Even if the cup is bitter--
may we be enabled to accept it.

We would get near to YOUR heart,
we would creep into JESUS' bosom,
into HIS everlasting arms, and be still.

 
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