Morning prayer · 24 August
Tomorrow’s grace too

God, I know your good plans for me are settled and made complete in your holy will. Your grace is there, and there I am, completely. But show me those plans in your own time, in your own measure, step by step, so I have not only the comfort of knowing you’re endlessly good, but also of finding you better and better to me every day. Keep me humble by teaching me this: whatever grace you give me today, I’d be lost tomorrow without tomorrow’s grace too. So I ask you for my daily bread. Amen.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Adapted from John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624), in plain words. The verse is from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Drawing: Mutter.