O dear Father, I go forth today accompanied by You, with Your blessings. Let not the strength and freshness of my morning, or good health, or the present prosperity and success of my undertakings, deceive me into a false reliance upon my own strength . All these good gifts have come to me from You. They are Yours to give and Yours to deny. They are not mine to keep; I only hold them in trust; and only in continued dependence upon You, the Giver, can they be worthily enjoyed.
Let me then put back into Your hand all that You have given me, rededicating to Your service all the powers of my mind and body, all my worldly goods, all my influence with other people. All these are Yours, O Father, to use as You will; all these are Yours, O Christ; all theses are Yours, O Holy Spirit. Speak in my words today, think in my thoughts; and work in all my deeds. Seeing that it is Your gracious will to make use even of such weak human instruments in the fulfillment of Your mighty purpose for the world, let my life today be the channel thru which some little portion of Your divine love and pity may reach the lives that are nearest me.
In Your solemn presence, O God, I remember all my friends and neighbors, my fellow cityfolks and specially the poor who pass our street today, beseeching You to give me grace, insofar as it lies in me, to serve them in Your name. O blessed Jesus, Who gave Your life for the redemption of man, giving no thought to ease or pleasure or worldly enrichment, but filling up all Your hours and days with deeds of self-denying love, give me grace today to follow the road You first traveled; and to Your Name be all the glory and the praise, even unto the end. Amen.
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