Best known for books like Treasure Island Robert Lewis Stevenson was also a committed believer. In the evening family and friends would gather for a time of worship. Stevenson wrote a number of prayer for these occasions. They are well worth adding to our own repertoire.
An Evening Prayer by Stevenson:
Lord,
Receive our supplications for this house, family, and country.
Protect the innocent, restrain the greedy and the treacherous, lead us out of our tribulation into a quiet land.
Look down upon ourselves and upon our absent dear ones.
Help us and them; prolong our days in peace and honor.
Give us health, food, bright weather, and light hearts.
In what we meditate of evil, frustrate our will; in what of good, further our endeavors.
Cause injuries to be forgot and benefits to be remembered.
Let us lie down without fear and awake and arise with exultation.
For his sake, in whose words we now conclude.
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