We thank You for this our earthly home.
We thank You for the love that binds us together,
For the refuge we find here from this world's enmities.
Here we can trust each other, and are sure of each other's love.
Deepen our home affections.
Draw us closer together as a family.
Make our home-life sweeter.
Enable us to be more helpful to each other.
Teach us patience in our family and in all our mingling together.
Help us to find the best things in each other,
And to give one to the other the best things of love we have in our hearts.
~ J. R. Miller, in Family Prayers for Thirteen Weeks
Image ~ Child at Prayer, Eastman Johnson 1873
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