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Summary
- Psalm 118:24, “This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it,” serves as a one-line morning prayer.
- Short prayers cover waking, midday and night, lost joy, grief, shame after a wrong, exhaustion, good news, another person’s good news, service and faith.
- “The joy of the LORD is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10) was said to people weeping at the reading of the law, who were told to feast and share with those who had nothing.
- Paul lists joy in “the fruit of the Spirit” (Galatians 5:22) and wrote “Rejoice in the Lord alway” from prison (Philippians 1:13; 4:4).
- Traditional prayers come from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (“In the Morning,” “For Joy in God’s Creation,” the Fourth Sunday after Easter collect) and the Magnificat (Luke 1:46–47).
- A low mood lasting two weeks or more can be depression, which a doctor can treat; 988 (US) and Samaritans 116 123 (UK and Ireland) answer at any hour.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Nehemiah 8:9–10; Psalm 4:7; 16:11; 30:5; 42:5; 51:12; 90:14; 118:24; Proverbs 17:22; Isaiah 61:3; Habakkuk 3:17–18; Luke 1:46–47; John 16:22; Romans 12:15; Galatians 5:22; Philippians 1:13; 4:4, 11; 1 Peter 1:8). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Evening Prayer, Magnificat, p. 26; The Fourth Sunday after Easter, Collect, p. 174; Family Prayer, “In the Morning,” p. 594, and “For Joy in God’s Creation,” p. 596. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Vespers, the Magnificat, p. 192. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888/page/192/mode/1up
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. Matins, the Magnificat, p. 32. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- National Institute of Mental Health. “Depression.” https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/depression
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. https://988lifeline.org/
- Samaritans. “Contact a Samaritan.” https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/
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