Books: A Diary of Private Prayer

It is my pleasure to recommend a book to you that until recently I didn't know existed, A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baille (1886-1960).

It contains two one-page written prayers for each day of the month, one for the morning and a companion for the evening. They are concise but loaded with high and wide thoughts of God. Below is about 2/5 of the page from the Thirty First Day Morning reading:

"Forbid, O Lord God, that my thoughts to-day should be wholly occupied with the world's passing show. Seeing that in Thy lovingkindness Thou has given me the power to lift my mind to the contemplation of things unseen and eternal, forbid that I should remain content with the things of sense and time. Grant rather that each day may do something so to strengthen my hold upon the unseen world, so to increase my sense of its reality, and so to attach my heart to its holy interests that, as the end of my earthly life draws ever nearer, I may not grow to be part of these fleeting earthly surroundings, but rather grow more and more confromred to the life of the world to come."

I don't know about you, but I don't yet pray like that, and I desparetly want to. Thanks be to the Father for giving us the Spirit as our helper and interpreter as we walk this earth learning to pray as we ought. I expect this book to be a great help along the way.