Evening Prayers Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Psalm 63: 3–7

Your unfailing love is better than life; therefore, I shall sing your praises. Thus all my life I bless you; in your name I lift my hands in prayer. I am satisfied as with a rich feast and there is a shout of praise on my lips. I call you to mind on my bed and meditate on you in the night watches, for you have been my help and I am safe in the shadow of your wings.

A prayer at the end of the day from the Lutheran tradition:

Gracious Lord we give you thanks for this day,
especially for the good we were permitted to give and receive.
The day is now past and we commit it to you.

Be present, we pray, with those who labour in the hours of night
especially those who watch and work on behalf of others.
Grant them a full measure of compassion.

Support the anxious and fearful for whom the darkness is a daily ordeal.
Grant to us all your mercy, peace and love at the close of today.

Lord we entrust to you the night, resting in your comfortable arms,
until the light returns at the dawn of a new day.

Now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
and the love of God
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit
be with us all evermore.

Amen

Sweet sleep refresh us all.

Good Night Living Stones.