Prayer for my day

Esther de Waal in her book The Celtic Way of Prayer quotes this prayer which is from Carmina Gadelica, III, p. 178.  It is a prayer prayed as the prayer was leaving his house for whatever task lay ahead. 

This morning, I am leaving the house for a whole whack of things that have to be done – strating with driving my daughters to their high school soccer game, then groceries, then who knows what!  It’s an ancient prayer for the day but fits my busy today one.

God, bless to me this day,

            God, bless to me this night;

Bless, O Bless, Thou God of grace,

            Each day and hour of my life;

Bless, O bless, Thou God of grace,

            Each day and hour of my life.

God, bless the pathway on which I go,

God bless the earth that is beneath my sole;

            Bless, O God, and give to me Thy love,

O God of gods, bless my rest and my repose;

            Bless, O God, and give to me Thy love,

And bless, O God of gods, my repose.