Amish Prayers

As you have loved us, Holy Father, so may we obey you out of childlike love; just as we acknowledge your fatherly love, so may we love our neighbors as ourselves.  Let us do nothing contrary to this love, and so do right by our neighbors.

We ask, holy Father, that we may enjoy in moderation all you give us to fulfill our needs and not misuse it due to extravagance or evil impulses.  give us a sensible heart, one faithful with your gifts and not overly concerned for food, drink, or earthly nourishment.  Instead, teach us to put our faith in you and to yearn for your divine help and grace.  Give us a humble, broken spirit, a penitent nature, true gentleness, and a hunger and thirst for your righteousness.  Amen.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.  Ephesians 4:32

Amish Prayers

You have once again let day dawn for us.  O heavenly Father; may we remember this is your merciful gift.  Teach us to understand why you have given us this glorious gift, and why you let your wonderful sun rise above us: so we may live each day according to your will and prepare ourselves for the never-ending day you will create.
 
Holy Father, may we learn to abandon and avoid the night of darkness and sin so we may walk in the clear light of your divine mercy.  Let us set aside the acts of darkness and take up the weapons of light so that we may always walk with integrity.  Amen

For the Lord God is a sun and shield:  the Lord will give grace and glory:  no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.   Psalm 84:11

Amish Prayers

Lord, Almighty God and Heavenly Father, you did not give us life and set us in this world merely so we would nourish ourselves with grief and work until we return to the dust from whence we came.  Instead, you ordained our lives so that we should fear you and love you, and cleave to you with all our hearts.  Even as your divine grace gave us the day to work, so you gave us the night to rest.  Under your fatherly shield of protection, we have mercifully enjoyed this rest, and for that we humbly praise and bless you with deep gratitude.  Amen

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the Heaven.  Ecclesiastes 3:1