Author: Christopher Drinkut
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To you before the close of day
Hymn: To you before the close of day,Creator of all things, we praythat, in your constant clemency,our guard and keeper you would be. Save us from troubled, restless sleep;from all ill dreams your children keep.So calm our minds that fears may ceaseand rested bodies wake in peace. A healthy life we ask of you:the fire…
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Glory to thee, my God, this night
Hymn: Glory to thee, my God, this night,for all the blessings of the light:keep me, O keep me, King of kings,beneath thine own almighty wings. Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear Son,the ill that I this day have done;that with the world, myself, and thee,I, ere I sleep, at peace may be. Teach me to…
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Lord God of morning and of night
Hymn: Lord God of morning and of night,We thank Thee for Thy gift of light;As in the dawn the shadows fly,We seem to find Thee now more nigh. Yet, whilst Thy will we would persueOft what we would we cannot do.The sun may stand in zenith skiesBut on the soul thick midnight lies. O Lord…