Our Father, cheer us with your presence, and direct us with your light. Give us strength to serve you. Give us your help in our sorrows, our weakness, our failures and sins. You know we cannot bear these burdens alone. We are like little children in a very dark world, and our path would be very hard if we walked it alone. But we are your children, and we know we can come to our Father, to ask you to help, refresh, strengthen us, and give us hope. We are not ashamed of our tears, for our Lord Jesus has wept with us. We do not ask you to take away our sorrow, for he was made perfect through suffering. Be with us as you were with him, our Father, close to your children, as he has promised. Amen.
The Altar at Home, 1862, revised from Prayers Ancient and Modern.
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