From my book A Calendar of Classic Prayer, beautiful words to help us commit even the most ordinary aspects of life to God.
Background
One of the most influential Christian writers of the early twentieth century was the Anglican novelist, poet and mystic Evelyn Underhill (1875–1941). Raised by parents with little interest in spirituality, she was an atheist in her youth, but later became a committed Anglo-Catholic. One of her chief aims was to earth the gospel in daily life, many of her writings (including several written under the pseudonym John Cordelier) developing a practical Christianity, accessible to all. The following, taken from her book Meditations and Prayers (1949), is an example of that concern, and offers a perfect way to commit the routine of each day into God’s care.
Prayer
Lord, help me to think of my small, formless, imperfect soul
as constantly subject to your loving, creative action,
here and now,
in all the bustle of my daily life,
its ups and downs,
its anxieties and tensions
and its dreary, unspiritual stretches –
and gradually giving it,
through these things,
its ordained form and significance.
So that in all the events of my life,
even the most trivial,
I experience your pressure,
Creative Artist.
Amen.