Father, we greet the day with gratitude. Thank you for our share of your compassion. Thank you for loving us. Thank you for allowing us to be alive here in the world today making an impact as you see fit.

Help us to live with compassion. Allow us to move forward together as one family. Show us how to love one another better. Lead us through the darkness into the Light. Feed us with your everlasting Love. Let us forgive ourselves as well as others. May truth be uncovered. Give us courage when things look and feel scary. Empower us to do what needs to be done. Carry us when we have exhausted all. Renew us when we are weary. Restore our faith when we falter.

May we continue on our path with unlimited vigor and find the peace to be able to rest when we need to recharge. “I am like a green pine tree, your fruitfulness comes from me.” (Hosea 14:8) Wash us clean every day, Father. Help clean out any gunk from old hurts and emotions that are no longer useful here in the present moment. Our bodies are your temple, so please help us keep it clean and healthy. May we always remember to laugh and stay as light-hearted as much as possible. May we ever-flourish. Help us please Father, to remember what is important, and to never give up, always rising, always moving forward.

“Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.” (Matthew 7:17-20)

Thank you Father for being here with us and being part of our lives. Thank you for your generous love and compassion. Allow us to become what you want and need us to be.

We humbly pray in Christ’s name,

Amen