Prayer of the Day

Father, thank You for this new job. I asked, You opened the door, and tomorrow I walk through it.

Calm my first-day jitters — the new badge, the new names, the new coffee machine I won't know how to work.

Help me learn fast and ask questions without shame. Give me favor with my new coworkers and patience with myself while everything is still unfamiliar.

Let me become, in time, the person there that others are glad to see walk in.

This job was Your gift, Lord. Help me treat it that way.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

Father, here is my child, almost asleep. Of everything You've trusted me with, this is the one that makes me pray the hardest.

Watch over this child tonight. Keep their sleep sweet and their dreams kind. Let them wake up rested, ready to laugh.

Thank You for who You made them to be — for the questions they ask, the way they see things, the particular joy they carry into a room. I forget to be amazed. Tonight I remember.

Grow them up strong and gentle, Lord. Give them courage for a world I can't follow them into, and a faith that's truly their own, not borrowed from mine.

Forgive me for the ways I fell short as a parent today. Cover my gaps with Your grace — You have always been the better Father.

Hold them tonight, and hold them always, long after my arms can't reach.

In Jesus' name, Amen.