2026-10-29

Prime

The first hour of the day, kept before the work begins.

Silence

Before anything else, be still. Let the day wait a minute.
Invocation

Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.

Psalms 70:1 · KJV
Scripture

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Psalms 127:1 · KJV
Philosophy

Of a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, 3 · tr. William Benham (1874)
Poetry

Teach me, my God and King, In all things thee to see; And what I do in anything, To do it as for thee;

George Herbert, The Elixir, The Temple, stanza 1 (1633)
Dedication
What will you give this day to?
Kept only on this device.
Prayer

And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Psalms 90:17 · KJV
Resolve

And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:5 · KJV

Silence