Today I Pray...

I would pray, O Lord, not only for myself but for all the household to which I belong, for all my friends and all my fellow workers, beseeching Thee to include them all in Thy fatherly regard. I pray also -
for all who will to-day be faced with any great decision:
for all who will to-day be engaged in settling affairs of moment in the lives of men and nations:
for all who are moulding public opinion in our time:
for all who write what other people read:
for all who are holding aloft the lamp of truth in a world of ignorance and sin:
for all whose hands are worn with too much toil, and for the unemployed whose hands to-day fall idle:
for those who have not where to lay their head...

(A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie, p. 117)