Morning prayer · 27 February

Fit for what you give

A simple wooden garment on a hanger, shaped loosely like a robe, being measured with a piece of string against a small figure's shadow — the fit sought rather than chosen.

Lord, we don’t know what’s best, so give us what you think fits. Only make us fit for what you give, and let it bring health and peace to our souls, and some good to others and to the world. Make us your holy temples. Stay with us, and be kind to us to the end. Let us do some work your mercy will accept, even if it falls short in your pure sight. Bless our work as far as it can go, and let us thank you for it with joy. Into your hands we give our spirit, soul and body. You made them, you save them and you restore them, God of truth. Lord, we trust you with our going out and coming in, today and forever. Amen.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

2 Corinthians 9:8 (BSB)

Adapted from Rowland Williams, via A Chain of Prayer Across the Ages (1913), in plain words. The verse is from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Drawing: Mutter.