Oh God, our Heavenly Father, Thank you for all your many blessings.
In today’s Gospel your Son teaches me to do to others whatever I would have them do to me, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Write this golden law upon my heart, and let me treat my family, my friends, and all your children with the same kindness I long to receive.
He tells me to enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the road that leads to destruction, but narrow is the gate and constricted the road that leads to life.
Lead me onto that narrow road, dear Father, and steady my feet so I do not wander after what is easy and empty.
Like Hezekiah, who spread his troubles before you in the temple and prayed, I bring my own cares and lay them open before you.
You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth, who made the heavens and the earth, so incline your ear and listen, open your eyes and see.
As you shielded your city and saved it for your own sake, be my stronghold and my mighty force against every trouble that besieges me and mine.
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 uphold me as you uphold your city forever.
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 of the world, and whoever follows you will have the light of life.
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.