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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

GOD IS LOVE, we often say, and God gives us strength through the power of love. Love’s power comes from deep respect and compassion for each and every person. Love’s power stems from our profound awareness of God’s presence in and around us at all times. It is our ability to know where and how to express compassion—putting others first and listening with true interest and respect. … Loving and powerful God, you have given us divine strength. May we trust it, live in it, and share it with all. Amen.

—Tom Camp, Upper Room Disciplines 2019 (Upper Room Books, 2018)

Today's Question

How does God’s love strengthen you?  

Today's Scripture

“For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.”
—2 Timothy 1:7 (NRSV)

Prayer for the Week

Lord, thank you for all the ways you are present in my life.
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