Dear Father, make me the human channel, so far as in me lies, through which Thy divine love and pity may reach the hearts and lives of a few of those who are nearest to me:
… of those who are faced by great temptations…
… of those who are faced by tasks too great for their powers…
… of those who stand in any valley of decision…
… of those who are in debt or poverty…
… of those who are suffering the consequences of misdeeds from long ago…
… of those who have never had a fair chance in life…
… of all family circles broken by death…
… of all missionaries of the Kingdom in faraway corners of the earth…
… of those who lift high the lamp of truth in lonely place…
Amen.
“A Diary of Private Prayer” by John Baillie
