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Working on a project such as this teaches us about the goodness of others. So here we name James Bratt, and Cindy deJong, and Debra Freeburg, and Susan Felch, and Jenny Williams, and thank them for suggesting and providing and tracking down selections for this anthology. Our work would have been more daunting, the result less pleasing without their help.

Alford: From Henry Alford, The Year of Prayer, Being Family Prayers for the Christian Year (London: Alexander Strahan, 1867): 28, 47.

Ambrose: Prayer attributed to Ambrose, translated by John Henry Newman and John Mason Neale, and included as the hymn for None in the Short Breviary.

Andrewes: “Thou who sendest forth,” from Preces Privatae, printed as Lancelot Andrewes and his Private Devotions (Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1896; first published Oxford, 1675).

St. Anselm: “Holy and undivided Trinity,” from the first prayer in Anselm’s Meditations and Prayers. “My whole heart, speak now,” from the opening chapter of Anselm’s The Proslogion (written 1077–1078).

Aquinas: “O Infinite Creator,” from Oratio S. Thomae Aquinatis ante stadium, “The Prayer of St. Thomas Before Study.”

Arnold: “I have work to do” is the prayer Arnold used as he entered Rugby School each day; it is recorded in his sermon, “How to Nourish the Spirit of Prayer,” included in his Christian Life, Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps: Sermons, Preached Mostly in the Chapel of Rugby School (London: B. Fellowes, 1841): 84. “O Lord, who by Thy holy Apostle,” from The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., ed. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (London: B. Fellowes, 1845): 2: 347.

St. Augustine: From Confessions 1.1, here translated by William Watts in 1631, with emendations by the editors.

Austen: “Give us grace” is one of three prayers by Austen first collected in 1926 and published in The Works of Jane Austen, ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954; 1988): 6: 453. By permission of Oxford University Press.

Avison: From Always Now: Collected Poems (Erin, Ontario: The Porcupine’s Quill, 2003): 192. Used by permission of The Porcupine’s Quill and the Estate of Margaret Avison.

Bacon: “To God the Father” (The Student’s Prayer); “Thou, O Father” (The Writer’s Prayer); and “O Eternal God” are from Bacon’s Christian Paradoxes, and published in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding (London: Longmans, 1852): 7: 259-261.

Barclay: “Let thy Spirit,” from A Book of Everyday Prayers (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959). “Be on our lips” and “Eternal God,” from A Plain Man’s Book of Prayers (London: Collins, 1928): 38 and 52. “Thank you, O God,” from More Prayers for the Plain Man (London: Collins, 1962).

Baxter: “My Lord, I have nothing to do in this world,” from “Dying Thoughts on Philippians 1.23,” recorded in The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, William Orme, ed. (London: James Duncan, 1830): 402-403. “But O Thou, the Merciful,” from The Saint’s Everlasting Rest (London: Thomas Underhill, 1654): Part IV: 303-304.

Bede: “And now, I beseech thee,” from the autobiographical conclusion to Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Translated here by J. A. Giles in The Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England, also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849).

Beecher: From Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit (New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1867). From the prayer, “Christ Our Necessity and Joy.”

Belgic Confession: A sixteenth-century confession authored by Guido de Brès, a reformed minister who lived in the Netherlands. The prayer was written in 1561, and after several amendments was adopted by the Synod of Dort in 1618–1619 as a doctrinal standard. Text taken from Psalter Hymnal (Grand Rapids, MI: CRC Publications, 1987), with permission.

Bernard of Clairvaux: “Jesus, the very thought of Thee,” trans. Edward Caswall (1814–1876) from Bernard’s long poem, “Dulcis Jesu Memorial,” and published in Caswall’s Lyra Catholic (1849).

Bernard of Cluny: From the dedicatory epistle for “Hora Novissima, Tempora Pessima Sunt, Vigilemus,” composed in the Abbey of Cluny in 1145.

Berryman: “Address to the Lord,” Section 1 from “Eleven Addresses to the Lord,” from Collected Poems, 1937–1971 by John Berryman. Copyright © 1989 by Kate Donahue Berryman. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

Book of Common Order: “Jesus the Christ, you refused to turn stones into bread,” a prayer from the Book of Common Order, Mission and Discipleship Council, Church of Scotland, 121 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4YN. Used with the permission of the Church of Scotland.

Bright: “O Lord God, in whom we live” and “Almighty God, who hast sent,” from Ancient Collects and Other Prayers (Oxford: J. H. and James Parker, 1857).

Brontë, Anne: “The Doubter’s Prayers,” from Poems by Currier, Ellis, and Acton Bell (London: Aylott and Jones, 1846).

Brontë, Emily: “No Coward Soul Is Mine,” from Poems by Currier, Ellis, and Acton Bell (London: Aylott and Jones, 1846).

Camara: Taken from A Thousand Reasons for Living, by Dom Helder Camara, ed. José de Broucher, trans. Alan Neame, published and copyright 1981 by Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd, London, and used by permission of the publishers.

Campion: “To Music bent is my retired Mind,” first published in Campion’s Two Bookes of Ayres (London, 1613).

Carlisle: “Help the Blind,” from his Looking for Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1993): 68. Used by permission of William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Chesterton: “You say grace before meals” is quoted in Dudley Barker, G. K. Chesterton, a Biography (New York: Stein and Day, 1973): 65, from unpublished notebook jottings. “A Hymn: O God of Earth and Altar,” originally printed in The Commonwealth, then given to the editor of the English Hymnal, Percy Dearmer, who published it in 1906.

Conference of European Churches: “Lord God, we have given more weight to our successes” is from the Conference of European Churches worship book, Gloria Deo: Worship Book for Conference of European Churches, Assembly IX, Stirling, Scotland. Copyright © Conference of European Churches, Geneva, Switzerland. Used with permission.

Counsell: “Almighty God, dwelling in the beauty of holiness” and “God, who wrestled with chaos,” from 2000 Years of Prayer, edited by Michael Counsell (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 1999): 564, 563. Copyright © 1999 by Morehouse Publishing, Harrisburg, PA. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY.

Crosby: “A Reverie,” written in 1903, and first printed in Fanny Crosby’s autobiography, Memories of Eighty Years (Boston: James H. Earle and Company, 1906).

Crowe: Text original to this collection, with permission.

Cummings: “i thank You God for most this amazing.” Copyright 1950, © 1978, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © by George James Firmage, from Complete Poems 1904–1962, by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Dante: From “Paradiso,” The Divine Comedy, Canto 33, ll. 67-75, 101-106, when Dante is guided by Beatrice to Paradise. This text from the first English translation of Dante by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867).

De Caussade: “O Unknown Love” and “Forgive me, divine Love,” from a collection of letters to sisters at Nancy, first published in 1861, and then more authoritatively as L’abandon à la providence divine (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1966). Translated by Algar Labouchere Thorold in Self-Abandonment to the Divine Providence (London: Burns, Oates & Co., 1933). Jean Pierre de Caussade copyright 1933. Reproduced by kind permission of Continuum International Publishing Group.

De Foucauld: “O Lord, guide my thoughts and my words,” from The Spiritual Autobiography of Charles de Foucauld, edited by Jean-François Six, translated by J. Holland Smith (New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1964; rpt. Denville, NJ: Dimension Books, 1972).

Donne: “When we see any man,” from Sermon 8, preached upon Whitsunday 1626 on John 16.8, 9, 10, 11; quoted from The Sermons of John Donne (London: Cambridge University Press, 1954): 7: 215-236. “Keep us Lord,” from Sermon 146, preached at Whitehall in 1627; quoted from The Works of John Donne, ed. Henry Alford (London: John W. Parker, 1839): 5: 604-623. “My God, my God,” from Expostulation and Prayer 19 of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, first published London: Thomas Jones, 1624.

Dryden: “Creator Spirit,” translated by Dryden from “Veni, Creator Spiritus,” by Rabanus Maurus, in 1690.

Duriez: “On Prayer,” printed in The Country of the Risen King: An Anthology of Christian Poetry, ed. Merle Meeter (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1978): 72.

Eliot: “The soul of Man” and “Lord, shall we not bring these gifts” from “Choruses from ‘The Rock’” (IX) from Collected Poems 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt, Inc. and renewed 1964 by T. S. Eliot, reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Ellis: “Spirit of God, you are the breath of creation,” from Janet Morley, ed., Bread of Tomorrow: Prayers for the Church Year (London: SPCK, 1992): 126. Reprinted by permission of Christian Aid.

Felch: Texts original to this collection, with permission.

Franklin: The epitaph is preserved in papers owned by Franklin’s grandson, William Temple Franklin, and held by the Library of Congress.

Freylinghausen: Freylinghausen’s hymns were published in his Geistreiches Gesangbuch (Halle, 1704/1714).

Fritsch: “Love Made Visible,” from Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day, ed. Macrina Wiederkerhr (Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books, 2008): 88-89.

Frost: From A Boy’s Will (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915).

Fuller: “Gracious Lord,” from Pulpit Sparks, or Choice Forms of Prayer, by Several Reverend and Godly Divines (London: W. Gilbertson, 1659): 156-171.

Galbraith: “Creator God,” excerpt from The Pattern of Our Days: Worship in the Celtic Tradition from the Iona Community. Edited by Kathy Galloway. Copyright © 1996 by The Authors. Paulist Press, Inc., New York/Mahwah, NJ. Reprinted by permission of Paulist Press, Inc. www.paulistpress.com.

Gibson: “Poetry Is the Spirit of the Dead, Watching,” published in Margaret Gibson, One Body (Louisiana State University Press, 2007). Copyright © Margaret Gibson. Reprinted by permission of Louisiana State University Press.

Glatshteyn: “Without Offerings,” from American Yiddish Poetry, ed. Benjamin and Barbara Harshav (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). Copyright © 1986. Reprinted by permission of University of California Press.

Gordon: “For Those Whose Work Is Invisible,” from the poem series “Prayers.” “Prayers” by Mary Gordon was first published in The Paris Review (Issue 151, Summer, 1999). Used with the permission of The Paris Review and reprinted by permission of SLL/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. Copyright by Mary Gordon.

Grimes: “Prayer and Meditation for A Girl Named Mister,” text original to this collection, with permission. Drafted on the occasion of writing A Girl Named Mister (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010).

Hammarskjöld: From Markings, Dag Hammarskjöld’s spiritual diary published after his death: Markings, translated by W. H. Auden and Leif Sjöberg, translation copyright © 1964, copyright renewed 2002 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., and Faber and Faber Ltd. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Havergal: “Lord, Speak to Me” was written at Winterdyne, England, in 1872 for the use of lay helpers in the church of Frances Havergal; it was originally called “The Worker’s Prayer.”

Head: “Grant, I beseech thee,” from He Sent Leanness: A book of prayers for the natural man (New York: Macmillan, and Epworth Press, 1959): 9. “With Thy Spirit,” from Stammerer’s Tongue (New York: Macmillan, and Epworth Press, 1960): 68. “In my writing on earth,” from Shout for Joy (New York: Macmillan, and Epworth Press, 1962): 74-75. Copyright © Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes. Used by permission.

Herbert: “Sonnet 1” is from Izaak Walton’s The Life of Mr. George Herbert (1670). “The Elixir,” “Gratefulness,” and “Praise (2)” are from Herbert’s collection, The Temple (Cambridge, 1633).

Herrick: “His Prayer for Absolution,” from Herperides (London: John Williams and F. Eglesfield, 1648).

Hettinga: Text original to this collection, with permission.

Hilary of Poitiers: A prayer based on his sermon, “On the Trinity” (Lib. 1: 37-38).

Hoezee: Texts original to this collection, with permission.

Holtby: Text written on her gravestone, Rudstone, Yorkshire.

Hull: “This Writer’s Plea,” text original to this collection, with permission.

Jackson: From “A Last Prayer,” from her Sonnets and Lyrics (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888).

Johnson: “Lord, my maker and protector,” and “Almighty God, our heavenly Father,” from Johnson’s Prayers and Meditations (London, 1785), a work published after his death and edited by Arthur Murphy in The Works of Samuel Johnson (London: S. and R. Bentley, 1823): 2: 698. “O God, who hast hitherto supported me,” is an entry in Johnson’s diary, April 3, 1753, during his compiling of his Dictionary of the English Language. It is printed in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: J. Dent, 1906): 2: 152.

Ken: “Prosper thou” from “Directions for Prayer, for the Diocese of Bath and Wells,” in The Prose Works of the Right Rev. Father in God, Thomas Ken, ed. James Thomas Round (London: J. G. and F. Rivington, 1838): 351.

Kepler: From Harmonices Mundi, Harmony of the World (1619).

Kierkegaard: “Lord, give us weak eyes” is the epigraph Kierkegaard used for his Sickness unto Death (Sygdomen Til Doden [Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzels Forlag, 1849]). Kierkegaard attributed the quote to the Moravian Bishop Johann Baptist von Albertini. “How could anything rightly be said” and “Father in heaven! Show us a little patience” are both from The Prayers of Kierkegaard, ed. Perry D. Lefevre (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956): 11, 19. Used by permission of the University of Chicago Press.

King: From his sermon, “Thanksgiving,” “preached at Lincoln Cathedral at the special service of Thanksgiving after the cessation of the typhoid epidemic in that City, June, 1905,” in Sermons and Addresses by Edward King (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911): 30-39.

Kingsley: “Stir us up,” from “The Crucifixion,” in Twenty-Five Village Sermons (Philadelphia: H. Hooker, 1854).

Klatt: “A Poet’s Prayer,” text original to this collection, with permission.

L’Engle: From Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1980): 22.

Lewis: “Footnote to All Prayers” and “The Apologist’s Evening Prayer” from POEMS by C. S. Lewis, copyright © 1964 by the Executors of the Estate of C. S. Lewis and renewed 1992 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd., reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

MacDonald: “Shall the Dead Praise Thee?” from The Poetical Works of George MacDonald (London: Chatto and Windus, 1893): 2: 326.

Mansfield: Cited from her journal in Isabel Constance Clarke, Six Portraits (London: Hutchinson, 1935): 277. Her journal was first published in 1927.

Marshall: “Lord, teach us to pray,” from Catherine Marshall, ed., The Prayers of Peter Marshall (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954): 15. Used by permission of Chosen, a division of Baker Publishing Company, copyright © 1989.

Masefield: “O Christ who holds,” from “The Everlasting Mercy” (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911); also printed in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse, ed. D. H. S. Nicholson and A. H. E. Lee (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917).

Mason: “How shall I sing that majesty,” from his Spiritual Songs, or Songs of Praise (London: 1683).

Merton: “A Prayer to God the Father on the Vigil of Pentecost,” from Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton, copyright © 1965, 1966 by The Abbey of Gethsemani. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. “Poem in the Rain and the Sun,” written in 1949 by Thomas Merton, from In the Dark Before Dawn, copyright © 1977, 1985 by The Trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

Millay: “God’s World,” from her collection Renascence (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1917): 40-41.

Milton: “What in me is dark, illumine,” from Paradise Lost (Book 1, ll. 22-26).

Montgomery: Composed in Sheffield, England, in 1818, and published in The Poetical Works of James Montgomery (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856).

Moody: “Here, O Lord,” from The Way to God and How to Find It (Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1884).

More: “The Scribe’s Prayer” was More’s last private devotion written just before his execution, July, 1535, and preserved in his Prayer Roll, a 1550 copy of which is housed in the Folger Library, Washington, D.C.

Newman: “Stay with me,” from “Jesus the Light of the Soul,” in Meditations and Devotions (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1893; 1903): 363-365. “Come, O my dear Lord,” from “The Kingdom of God,” in Newman’s Meditations on Christian Doctrine (518-521). “Shine forth, O Lord,” from Parochial and Plain Sermons 4: Sermon 13 (London: Rivingtons, 1875).

Niebuhr: “Many, O Lord,” reprinted with permission of the Estate of Reinhold Niebuhr from Justice and Mercy, edited by Ursula Niebuhr (New York: Harper and Row, 1974).

Nouwen: From his A Cry for Mercy: Prayers from the Genesee (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981). Used by permission of Random House, Inc.

Old: Excerpt from “Blessed you are, Lord God,” from Leading in Prayer: A Workbook for Ministers (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1995). Reprinted by permission of the publisher; all rights reserved.

Paton: “O Lord, open my eyes,” from his collection of prayers, Instrument of Thy Peace (New York: Seabury Press, 1968).

Quoist: “And so all men,” from Prayers of Life, trans. Anne Marie de Commaile and Agnes Mitchell Forsyth (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1963). Reprinted by permission of Gill & Macmillan.

Rauschenbusch: From For God and People: Prayers for Social Awakening (Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1910).

Rienstra: “A Lament,” text original to this collection, with permission.

Rilke: “Du dunkelnde Grund . . . / Dear darkening ground . . . ,” “Du siehst, ich will viel . . . / You see, I want a lot . . . ,” from RILKE’S BOOK OF HOURS: LOVE POEMS TO GOD by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, copyright © 1996 by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. Used by permission of Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. “In your long archways” and “I want to record you, observe you,” from Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lonely God, Annemarie S. Kidder, trans. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2001): 75, 83. Copyright © 2001 by Annemarie S. Kidder. Reprinted by permission of Northwestern University Press.

Robinson: “Come, Thou Fount,” composed in 1757, and appeared in his A Collection of Hymns used by the Church of Christ in Angel Alley, Bishop Gate (1759).

Rossetti: “Suppose our duty of the moment,” from Time Flies: A Reading Diary (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1885). “Lord Jesus Merciful and Patient” and “O most Holy,” from The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse (New York: E. & J. B. Young, 1892): 184; 522. “O Lord Jesus Christ,” from Annus Domini: A Prayer for Each Day of the Year, Founded on a Text of Holy Scripture (London: James Parker and Co., 1874).

Sarum Primer: The Sarum prayers and devotions developed in thirteenth-century Salisbury. The first version printed in England was in London in 1498; this traditional prayer appears in a 1538 text of that primer.

Schmidt: Text original to this collection.

Selles: “A Writer’s Prayer in Autumn,” text original to this collection, with permission.

Service: From “Prelude” and “The Scribe’s Prayer,” from Rhymes of a Rolling Stone (Toronto: William Briggs, 1912): 9-10; 194-195.

Shaw: “He who would be great among you,” from A Widening Light: Poems of the Incarnation, ed. Luci Shaw (Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1984): 78-79.

Smart: “Hymn 3: Epiphany” and “Hymn 15: Taste” were published in A Translation of the Psalms of David: attempted in the Spirit of Christianity, and adapted to the divine service (London: Dryden Leach, 1765). “Christ, keep me from the self survey,” from Hymns for the Amusement of Children (London: T. Carnan, 1771).

Solzhenitsyn: Solzhenitsyn’s “Prayer” was written after One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and was widely distributed upon his exile from the Soviet Union. It appeared as “Pominovenie usopih,” in Etioudy i khrokhotnye rasskazy, copyright © 1996–1998 by Alexandre Solzhenitsyn. This translation is by Aleksandr Solkhenitsyn’s son, Ignat Solzhenitsyn. It is published in The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings: 1947–2005, eds. Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney (Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006): 624-625. By permission of Librairie Arthème Fayard.

Stevenson: From Prayers Written at Vailima (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904): 8.

Stickney: Texts original to this collection.

Taylor: From “Devotions for Ordinary Days,” part of his The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living (1650). In The Poetical Works of Edward Taylor, ed. Thomas Johnson. Copyright © 1939, renewed 1943 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press. (“Huswifery,” 116; “The Ebb and Flow,” 119.)

Tennyson: From the prelude to “In Memoriam A.H.H.” (1850): ll. 41-44.

Timmerman: Text original to this collection, with permission.

Topping: Frank Topping, ed., Daily Prayer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). “Most Gracious and Holy Father”: 4; “Lord of galaxy and space”: 213; “Lord Jesus, write your truth”: 62. Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London, on behalf of Frank Topping. Copyright © Frank Topping, 2003.

Vande Kopple: Text original to this collection, with permission.

Vanden Bosch: “A Writer’s Prayer after Psalm 144,” text original to this collection, with permission.

Vander Lei: Text original to this collection, with permission.

Wangerin: Text original to this collection, with permission.

Watts: “The Heavens Declare Thy Glory,” “I’ll Praise My Maker,” and “Praise Ye the Lord” each from Isaac Watts’ The Psalms of David (London: J. Clark, 1719).

Wee Worship Book: “Eternal God, whom our words may cradle,” excerpted from p. 77 of A Wee Worship Book by WGRG, Copyright © 1999, Wild Goose Resource Group, Iona Community, Scotland. GIA Publications, Inc., exclusive North American agent, 7404 S. Mason Ave., Chicago, IL 60638. www.giamusic.com. 800-442-1358. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Wesley, Charles: “Forth in Thy Name,” was originally entitled “Before Work,” and was first published in Wesley’s Hymns and Sacred Poems (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1749).

Wesley, Susanna: “A Prayer for Reverence,” recorded as coming from her “original papers” and printed in Rev. John Kirk, The Mother of the Wesleys: A Biography (London: John Mason, 1864): 244.

Whittier: “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind,” from the poem “The Brewing of Soma,” first published in The Pennsylvania Pilgrim and Other Poems (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1872): 93-94.

Wiederkehr: “Dear Artist of the Universe,” “Make of me a twilight,” and “O Word Made Flesh,” from Seven Sacred Pauses (Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books, 2008): 177, 179, 62. Excerpted from Seven Sacred Pauses by Macrina Wiederkehr. Used with permission of the publisher, Ave Maria Press, Inc., P.O. Box 428, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, www.avemariapress.com.

Willis: Text original to this collection, with permission.

The Worship Sourcebook, ed. Emily R. Brink and John D. Witvliet (Grand Rapids: Calvin Institute of Christian Worship; Faith Alive Christian Resources; and Baker Books; 2004). “Our Father, forgive us”: “Prayers of Confession,” #48 (102); “Almighty God, you who shaped”: “Advent: Confession and Assurance,” #9 (443). Copyright © Faith Alive Christian Resources, taken from Reformed Worship 27: 42; 33: 10. Used by permission.