Oh God, our Heavenly Father, Thank you for all your many blessings.
In today’s Gospel your Son tells me to stop judging, that I may not be judged, for with the measure I use it will be measured back to me.
He asks why I notice the splinter in my brother’s eye while the wooden beam is still in my own.
So first, dear Father, help me remove the beam from my own eye, that I may see clearly and walk in mercy toward all your children.
Your living and effective word discerns the reflections and thoughts of my heart, so search me, soften me, and turn me from every stiff-necked way.
In the days of old your people would not listen and rejected your statutes, and they fell; let me not follow their path, but keep your commandments and trust in you.
Thank you for the blessings I have already received, and thank you for the blessings still coming toward me, my household, and all I love.
Provide for me, for mine, and for my family with your abundance, your wealth, and your mighty force.
Comfort me and calm every worry, and help me with your right hand, O Lord, and answer me.
Repair the cracks in what is tottering, restore what has been broken in body, mind, and spirit, and make me whole again.
Strengthen me with your strength, fill me with your wisdom, and guide me by your light in all my steps.
Heal me and heal those I love, and let your healing reach far beyond what I can see.
Forgive me my trespasses and my many shortcomings, as I forgive those who trespass against me, and release the burdens I carry so I may walk free.
Keep your hand upon me and my family, and deliver us from all evil.
We also have a silent request.
We offer you a promise of this quiet act of kindness done in secret today, and we ask that you accept it.
I lift up my family, my friends, and all your children, and I place their needs and their well-being into your care.
Watch over them, provide for them, and draw them close to you.
I surrender myself and all that I am to you, trusting fully in your will.
Bless me, bless my family, and bless all who hope in you.
We pray these things to you our Lord God, through Christ. And It Is So.