The gift of pain

MORNING PRAYER

Now I wake me up to live!

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MORNING PRAYER

Now I wake me up to live!

I’ll give life all I have to give;

And if today I face a test,

I’ll hope,

cope,

pray

and do my best.

Wherever I may go today,

May Love’s light guide me on the way.

With each breath and each step I take,

Be with me, Lord, for heaven’s sake.

Amen.

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As a kid, I learned to say my bedtime prayers each night:

Now I lay me down to sleep…

As an adult, depression taught me a different way to pray.

I wrote Morning Prayer during a bleak period when sleep was elusive. But hard as it was to get through the nights, daytime was my bigger challenge.

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