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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.

 

Today’s Reflection

Be thankful. Be thankful that you are part of the body of Christ. Be thankful for the spiritual adventure of life in Christ. Be thankful for the ways in which you understand God’s love. Be thankful on waking each morning for a fresh awareness of God’s love. Be thankful for the sustaining support of God throughout each day. Be thankful and rejoice in the knowledge of God’s love in the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God!

—George H. Donigian, In Days to Come: From Advent to Epiphany (Upper Room Books, 2017)

Today’s Question

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Today’s Scripture

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
—1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NRSV)

Prayer for the Week

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
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4 Comments

  • Joe Parrish Posted January 2, 2022 3:28 am
    • robert moeller Posted January 2, 2022 5:20 pm

      I can testify to this truth. Thankful everyday for it.

  • April Posted January 2, 2022 7:53 am

    Happy New Year NEM family,
    I am thankful for God’s sustaining support everyday. I see it around me, I feel it within me, and I know that your prayers have been with me as I am meeting the challenges of each day as a caregiver.
    I have a new devotional book for this year, “Jesus Listens” by Sarah Young. The prayer for Dec 31 was that God’s light to shine in the year ahead and through me. I hold that thought and also pray it for each in our NEM family.
    Be Blessed in 2022.

    • robert moeller Posted January 2, 2022 5:27 pm

      Have been and still am a caregiver. Thank you for caring. It is what we are called to do. Today’s reflection says it well in every sentence. Blessings for the New Year.0

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