Prayer of the Day

Father, nothing much is happening today. No crisis, no celebration — just an ordinary day, like a hundred others. I'm learning that these are most of my life.

So meet me here, in the middle of the plain stuff: the dishes and the emails, the errands and the small talk, the same commute, the same faces, the same chair.

Keep me from despising ordinary days, and from sleepwalking through them. You were here yesterday and I barely noticed. Open my eyes today.

Make me faithful in small things — the unglamorous work, the tiny kindnesses, the promises nobody would notice if I broke. If most of life is ordinary, then let me love You mostly here.

And if today turns out to hold more than I expect, good or hard, You'll be in that too.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

Thank You, Father, for this day now ending.

For food on the table and a place to sleep. For work done and rest coming. For the people who love me, and the mercy that met me every hour, seen and unseen.

I didn't earn a minute of it. Receive my thanks — it's all I have to give back tonight, and You've never asked for more.

In Jesus' name, Amen.