Morning Prayers

"O Lord in the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee and will look up." O Savior, teach me today that my life is found in you and not in what is around me; teach me to look upon your face so that I might more clearly see your image in the face of others; teach me to look up, forgetting what lies behind, pressing forward to lay hold of that for which you have laid hold of me. Amen.