Commontide
O God, our times are in your hand: Look with favor, we pray, on your servants whose birthdays we remember as he begins another year. Grant that he may grow in wisdom and grace, and strengthen his trust in your goodness all the days of his life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
BCP 2019, p. 666
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A birthday prayer composed fresh for the American Book of Common Prayer of 1979, opening with a borrowed line from the Psalms before turning to its own petition for wisdom, grace, and trust as another year begins.