There is one more element of daily prayer from our Book of Common Prayer that I want to commend to you, and that is Compline, or night prayer at the end of the day. No matter what form you use, it is always a good and holy thing to end our day with the Lord. When the day is past, all our…

Picture a stone, one that you plucked up out of the forest. It has a hard rocky surface and jagged edges, formed by thousands of years of tectonic movements and soil. You take that forest stone and drop it in the waters of a clear, moving stream. If you sit and watch your stone through the water, not much will happen. But,…

The final element of the shape of prayer I want to focus on in this series is thanksgiving. The Daily Office liturgies of the Book of Common Prayer end with the prayer of General Thanksgiving, and I want to use this prayer as a model and a picture of the kind of thankful people that these prayers are forming us into. Here’s…