a morning praise

a morning prayer of adoration:

Father,

We bless you for your preservation of us during the past night;
and we desire to acknowledge again our dependence upon you,
and our unfeigned obligations toward you.
We thank you for having poured down upon us so many blessings of this life;
we thank you for our health and strength; for our food and dress;
and for all the comforts and conveniences we enjoy.
But, above all, we praise you for the inestimable privilege of being born in a land of religious light and knowledge.
For these, and for all your various and great mercies,
we would render unto you a grateful heart;
and we would endeavor to show our gratitude,
not with our lips only, but with our lives;
giving up ourselves to your service and by walking before you,
in holiness and righteousness, all our days on earth.
Yes, and very amen, in Jesus’ name.

Henry Thornton