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A Collect for Honesty with God
Loving Father, from whom nothing is hidden, do not let our anxious hearts keep us from being honest with you, knowing that you see into…
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A Collect to Be Honest with God
All-knowing Father, who sees the thoughts of our hearts, teach us to be honest with you and plain about our hearts, that we would be able…
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A Collect for Finding Good in Disarray
Lord God, who jumbles our expectations and challenges our distorted values, help us to accept when our worlds and values are in disarray,…
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A Collect to See God’s Care for All
God of all riches, out of whose hand we all receive our food, keep us from envy, and give us eyes to see your generosity and love, that…
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A Collect to Avoid Fruitless Comparison
Heavenly Father, whose love is given freely to all, keep us from fruitless comparison and envy, that we would not fall prey to jealous…
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A Collect to Eschew Grumbling
Great King of all creation, in whose fields we labor, forgive us when in this fallen and struggling world, we grumble and complain…
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A Collect for Patience in Our Work on Earth
Holy Lord, who learned patience when you took on our nature, we await with anticipation the reward that we are to receive, but give us…
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A Collect to Wait Well
Heavenly Father, who is creator and owner of all that we know, help us to accept that your timing is not our own, that when we find…
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A Collect to Submit to the Lord’s Work
Almighty God, Lord of all creation, you have prepared for us work to do in your world. Give us humble hearts that will submit to your…
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A Collect for Our Hearts to Change
Heavenly Father, who attends not only to our actions, but to our hearts, show us where our hearts have been impure or divided, that we…