Acts 10:4 Thy prayers and thine alms are come up before God

April 2

Thy prayers and thine alms are come up before God. Acts 10:4

Photo: Bill Davenport

OUR Father in Heaven, we thank Thee for teaching us to value this moment of looking up to Thee at the commencement of the day — lest we forget the purpose Thou gavest it for.

We thank Thee that Thou hast placed us in a world that needs today what we can give it, and so gives dignity and meaning to our transient lives.

Teach us this day to do the thing that pleases Thee, and so through all its difficulties and all its disappointments enjoy the peace that passes understanding, that shall make us cheerful at all times.

We thank Thee for the knowledge of Thy love that forgives our sins; may we reflect it today, seeing only the best that is in others, that we may be kind all the day through. Enable us to "serve" and to "give."

Save us from the selfishness that blinds, and from the conceit that cannot walk by faith, and enable us so to let our light shine, that men may glorify Thee today for having seen us — for Thine is the power and the glory, forever. Amen.

Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, M. D., LL.D.,

St. Anthony, Newfoundland