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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

Personal healing liturgies are most appropriate when they relate to times of crisis or change in one person’s life. Because personalized liturgies are a bridge between pastoral counseling and the corporate life of the church, usually the occasions for personal liturgies are just that: deeply personal and inevitably varied. Personal liturgies can be created to celebrate or mourn, to recognize growth or stagnation, to claim or surrender, to give up false hope or hold fast to the Love that will not let us go.

—Tilda Norberg, Gathered Together: Creating Personal Liturgies for Healing and Transformation (Upper Room Books, 2007)

Today’s Question

When has liturgy provided a meaningful bridge for you? Join the conversation.

Today’s Scripture

We have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may walk worthy worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God.
—Colossians 1:9-10 (NRSVUE)

Prayer for the Week

Great are you, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is your power, and your understanding is beyond measure. Amen. [prayer adapted from The Confessions of Saint Augustine]
Submit your prayer to The Upper Room.

Something More

Discover the diverse voices and perspectives that make The Upper Room Disciplines a meaningful companion for daily devotion. Watch a message from the contributors to Disciplines 2025 here.

Lectionary Readings

Reign of Christ

  • 2 Samuel 23:1-7
  • Psalm 93
  • Revelation 1:4b-8
  • John 18:33-37

Read the lectionary texts courtesy of Vanderbilt Divinity Library here.

Looking for lectionary-based resources? Learn more about The Upper Room Disciplines.

1 Comment

  • Jill Posted November 24, 2024 4:22 pm

    My friend has found great comfort and happiness in a new church setting which relies heavily on liturgy. I attended it with her last Fall and I know it deeply resonates with her. I am not accustomed to liturgical services. I kinda feel like my morning time is liturgical in its own way.
    Becky and I spent the afternoon together. It was very nice. We went to Little Italy, enjoyed a nice lunch, bakery, gelato and later on ice cream!! Hit some little shops and a few furniture stores.
    Two school days this week. Grateful for the brevity of that.

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