Our Father in Heaven, whose will shall be achieved in its proper time, we thank you for adopting us as your children. Grant that we would become more and more like you, that we would take on your character and likeness: gracious, generous, and wise with you and with one another, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
‘He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.’ – Eph. 1:5-6