September 18, 2009

Here is today's prayer:

O God, our Father, save us this day from all the sins into which we so easily and so continually fall.

Save us from demanding standards from others which we never even try to satisfy ourselves.
Save us from being very easy on ourselves and very hard on others.
Save us from making excuses for things in ourselves which in others we would condemn.
Save us from being wide-open-eyed to the faults of others, and blind to our own.
Save us from taking for granted all that our loved ones do for us, and from never realizing how much they do and how much we demand.

Help us through this day to try to do to others what we would wish them to do to us, and so help us to fulfill the law of Jesus Christ. This we ask for Thy love's sake. Amen.

From William Barclay's The Plain Man's Book of Prayers, page 42.