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O Eternal God,
though you are not in a state
that I can see with my eyes
or touch with my hands,
please grant me this day
a clear conviction of your reality and power.
Let me not go forth to my work
believing only in the world of sense and time,
but give me grace to understand
that the world I cannot see or touch
is the most real world of all.
My life today will be lived in time,
but eternal issues will be concerned in it.
My business will be with things material,
but behind them let me be aware of things spiritual.
O God, who dwells in light unapproachable,
yet also lives within me,
give me grace today to recognize
the stirrings of your Spirit within my soul
and to listen most attentively
to all that you have to say to me.
Don’t let the noise of the world
ever so confuse me that I cannot hear you speak.
John Baille, 1886–1960, Scottish theologian
A Diary of Private Prayer, freely modified
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For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness
and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
To long for God to speak in the everyday facets of life and to actually hear him is exciting. Love this prayer and need to capture it as my own.
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