Morning prayer · 2 January
Young eyes and heart
Lord, the things I could have done when I was young and strong, if I’d been true to the truth from the start, please let me do them now that I’m older, with clearer sight and a humbler heart, even without a young mind. In your gentleness and compassion, lead me, your old soul, back along the path of pain, round to my best: young eyes, young heart, young mind. Amen.
who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Adapted from George MacDonald, Diary of an Old Soul (1880), in plain words. The verse is from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Drawing: Mutter.