Dear most Gracious Heavenly Father, Thank you for all your many blessings.
Today your Church remembers the birth of John the Baptist, the one called from birth to prepare the way before your Son.
You formed him in his mother’s womb and gave him a name and a purpose before he ever drew breath, and I know that you have known me and called me in the same loving way.
You made him a voice crying out in the wilderness, and a light to point others toward you, so make me also a small light in my own corner of the world.
Like John, let me decrease that you may increase, and let my whole life say that you are good.
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 steady me as you steadied your servant in the desert.
Repair 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, for you are the light that no darkness can overcome.
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.