ADVENT

O LORD, my years grow long, my time short: Let me make haste with my repentance and bow head and heart: Let me not stay one day from amendment, lest I stay too long: Let me cease without delay to love my own mischief, and abandon without a backward look the unfruitful...

A PRAYER FOR LENT

LORD, bless to me this Lent. Lord, let me fast most truly and profitably, by feeding in prayer on your Spirit: reveal me to myself in the light of your holiness. Suffer me never to think that I have: Knowledge enough to need no teaching, Wisdom enough to need no...

A Prayer for Old Age

Eric Milner-White (1884-1963), a distinguished clergyman of the Church of England wrote a book of prayers, My God, My Glory, which is a favorite of mine. It contains the revised versions of the original prayers of his heart. Many of them were written during wakeful...