Daily Affirmations - Day 7 - In This Place - In My Father's Keeping

Day 7: In my Father's keeping

The Lord will keep the needy safe and will protect us forever

“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away? Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord (Jeremiah 23:23-24).

Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that You have done for us. We thank You for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love.

We thank You for the blessing of family and friends, and for the loving care which surrounds us on every side.

We thank You for setting us at tasks which demand our best efforts, and for leading us to accomplishments which satisfy and delight us.

We thank You also for those disappointments and failures that lead us to acknowledge our dependence on You alone.

Above all, we thank You for Your Son Jesus Christ; for the truth of His Word and the example of His life; for His steadfast obedience, by which He overcame temptation; for His dying, through which He overcame death; and for His rising to life again, in which we are raised to the life of Your kingdom.

Grant us the gift of Your Spirit, that we may know Christ and make Him known; and through Him, at all times and in all places, may give thanks to You in all things. Amen.

~ The Book of Common Prayer

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When the early morning breaking,

Slumber from my eyelids shaking,

Comes the blessed thought with waking,

I am in His keeping.

Day advances, labor bringing,

Care, her mantle ’round me flinging,

Yet midst all my soul keeps singing,

I am in His care.

Refrain:

I am in my Father’s keeping,

I am in His tender care;

Whether waking, whether sleeping,

I am in His care.

Sometimes dark clouds hang o’er me,

Not one step I see before me,

Still, my Savior, I adore Thee,

I am in His keeping.

I can trust His hand to guide me,

’Neath His wings He’ll safely hide me,

And no harm can e’er betide me,

I am in His care.

Gentle eventide is nearing,

Light from heaven disappearing,

Still the blessed thought so cheering,

I am in His keeping.

Now night’s curtains gather ’round me,

Yet its dangers have not found me,

For His angel guards surround me,

I am in His care.

~ Lelia N. Morris ~ 1898

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