Arrow prayers are short prayers that one sends up to heaven at any time and any place. The best ones are just a few words in length like, "Lord save me!"
Lord, watch over our daughter and her friend during the vacation in Europe. Bring them both back safely to us.
Give us patience as we deal with the many members of the health care profession. Give us strength to persevere when we have questions or don't understand procedures that they are not bothering to explain.
Lord, we ask for your presence in the lives of all our sick neighbors, friends, co-workers, family and loved ones. Give strength to all in the medical profession who look after us when we are ill.
I pray that I may choose the right way. I pray that I may follow it to the end. (Alan L. Roeck, Look To This Day, 29 August)
I pray that I may not grow weary in my attempts to do the right thing. (Alan L. Roeck, Look To This Day, 28 August)
I thank God for the story of Peter. I do not know a man in the Bible who gives us a greater comfort. When we look at his character, so full of failures, and at what Christ made him by the power of the Holy Ghost, there is hope for every one of us. But remember, before Christ could fill Peter with the Holy Spirit and make a new man of him, he had to go out and weep bitterly; he had to be humbled.
(Andrew Murray in His Passion, Day 187)
I pray that I may willingly submit to whatever spiritual discipline is necessary. I pray that I may accept whatever it takes to live a better life. (Alan L. Roeck, Look To This Day, 27 August)
Lord, on this Labor Day we give thanks for our training and education and for the good jobs the members of our extended family have had as a result.
