Morning prayer · 11 July

Your whole family

Many small houses on one hillside, each with a different roof colour and shape, joined by a single garden path that threads from every doorway into one shared courtyard in the middle.

God, you’ve taught your church to keep all your commands by loving you and loving the people around us. Give us a spirit of peace and grace, so that your whole family, everywhere, may be devoted to you with all our hearts and joined to each other with a pure will. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Romans 13:10 (BSB)

Adapted from an ancient Leonine collect, tr. William Bright (1864), in plain words. The verse is from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Drawing: Mutter.