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New every morning is your love, great God of light, and all day long you are working for good in the world. Stir up in us desire to serve you, to live peacefully with our neighbors and all your creation, and to devote each day to your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

"A Liturgy for Morning Prayer," Upper Room Worshipbook

Used by permission from the Book of Common Worship, © 2018 Westminster John Knox Press. All rights reserved. This prayer appears in “A Liturgy for Morning Prayer” in Upper Room Worshipbook.

Ron Crandall

An ordained United Methodist pastor, Dr. Ronald K. Crandall is Associate Dean of the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary. Ron is the author of three other books, There’s New Life in the Small Congregation (Discipleship Resources, 1983), Turnaround Strategies for the Small Church (Abingdon, 1995), and The Contagious Witness: Exploring Christian Conversion (Abingdon, 1999), and has written numerous other articles and publications for The Upper Room and The United Methodist Church.

Books by Ron Crandall