It’s time once again to listen over the shoulder to a Prayer of the Puritans:

O God, We bless thee, our Creator, Preserver, Benefactor, Teacher…
for opening to us the volume of nature where we may read and consider thy
works.
Thou hast this day spread before us the fuller pages of revelation,
and in them we see what thou wouldest have us do, What thou requirest of us,
what thou hast done for us, what thou hast promised to us, what thou hast given
us in Jesus.
We pray thee for a conscious experience of His salvation, in our deliverance from
sin, in our bearing his image, in our enjoying his presence, in our being upheld
by his free Spirit.
Let us not live uncertain of what we are, of where we are going.
Bear witness with our spirit that we are thy children; and enable each one to say,
‘I know my Redeemer.’
Bless us with a growing sense of this salvation.
If already enlightened in Christ, may we see greater things; if quickened, may we
have more abundant life; if renewed, let us go on from strength to strength.
Give us closer abiding in Jesus that we may bring forth more fruit, have a deeper
sense of our obligations to him, that we may surrender all, have a fuller joy,
that we may serve him more completely. And may our faith work by love towards
him who died, towards our fellow-believers, towards our fellow-men.
(Taken from, Valley of Vision)