Eberhard Jüngel: Prayer 1

We thank you, dear heavenly Father,
That every morning your grace comes fresh and new.
Today also you quicken us with your inexhaustible power of life.
Eternal God, we sing your praise now and forever.
Lord Jesus Christ,
You are the spring that stills our thirst for life.
We thank you with our hearts and mouths and hands.
God, Holy Spirit, come,
Open our hearts, open our mouths, open our hands,
that we might magnify God’s name with
our thoughts, our words, and our courageous acts,
singing a new song before all the world!
You, we praise; you alone, our triune God. AMEN

-Eberhard Jüngel, “Trinitarian Prayers for Christian Worship,” Word & World 18/3 (Summer 1998): 246. German original in Eberhard Jüngel, Unterbrechungen: Predigten IV (Munich, 1989), 168.