Morning prayer · 15 December
Restless until it rests

Lord, you are great, and so worthy of praise. Your power is great, and your wisdom has no end. And we want to praise you, we who are only a tiny part of what you’ve made. We carry our mortality around with us, a sign of our sin and a sign that you oppose the proud. Yet still we want to praise you, small as we are. You wake us up to delight in praising you, because you made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. Amen.
Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.
Adapted from St Augustine, Confessions (tr. E. B. Pusey, 1838), in plain words. The verse is from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Drawing: Mutter.