Collect Of The Day: 05/16/2025

Heavenly Father, your gift is length of days: Help me to make use of mind and body in my advancing years. As you have pardoned my transgressions, sift ingatherings of my memory that evil may grow dim and good may shine forth. I bless you for your gifts, and especially for your presence and the love of friends in heaven and on earth. Grant me new ties of friendship, new opportunities of service, joy in the growth and happiness of children, sympathy with those who bear the world’s burdens, clear thought, and quiet faith. Teach me to bear infirmities with cheerful patience. Keep me from narrow pride in outgrown ways, blind eyes that will not see the good of change, impatient judgments of the methods and experiments of others. Let your peace rule my spirit through all the trials of my waning powers. Take from me all fear of death, and all despair or undue love of life, that with a glad heart at rest in you I may await your will. Amen.

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