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Prayers for Use by a Sick Person
O heavenly Father, you give your children sleep for the refreshing of soul and body: Grant me this gift, I pray; keep me in that perfect peace which you have promised to those whose minds are fixed on you; and give me such a sense of your presence, that in the hours of silence I may enjoy the blessed assurance of your love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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A gentle bedtime prayer written for the sick, added to the American Prayer Book in 1979 and carried unchanged into BCP 2019.