More Than Mouthed Repetitions...

 

I should never want to take

For-granted all the pleas I make...

'Lord, help us seek the true and good

And fill our hearts with gratitude

Lord, keep us safe and watch, I pray

Our thoughts and actions; what we say

And help us this day not to waste

Its moments in dull, heedless haste

Lord, fill with gladness every task

And teach us what we ought to ask'

© Janet Martin

An inexplicable wave of wonder surged through me as I prayed with the school-kids before they left this morning. Often a prayer’s words seem repetitious, yet our needs are new every morning, just as is God’s mercy!