Oh God, our Heavenly Father, Thank you for all your many blessings.
In today’s Gospel your Son teaches that everyone who listens to his words and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.
The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted that house, but it did not collapse, for it had been set solidly on rock.
Be my rock, dear Father, and let me not only say “Lord, Lord,” but truly do the will of my Father in heaven.
Build my life and the life of my family upon you, so that when the storms of this world rise against us, we will stand and not be ruined.
You remind me in your word that whoever loves you will keep your word, and that you and the Father will come and make your home with him, so make your home in me.
Like your people of old, who saw their treasures carried off and their city laid low, I know how quickly the things of this earth can be taken away, so teach me to build on what cannot be shaken.
For the glory of your name, O Lord, deliver us, help us, and pardon our shortcomings for your name’s sake.
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 set my feet upon the rock that does not move.
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 teach as one having true authority.
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.