O God,
this new day opens before us with promise and opportunity.
It is your gift to us; help us make it our gift to you.
The day lies before us like a page waiting to be written.
Save us from scribbling over it meaningless marks and idle doodling.
Help us to write somewhere upon it a poem of praise,
a prayer of compassion, a significant sentence –
Help us to say less and to mean more, to make gestures of grace and not of haste.
Give us good words to speak, good thoughts to think, good deeds to do.
But above all, evoke from us praise, that we may be the best of all givers: Thanks Givers.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
(author unknown)