Day 1 Evening/John Baillie, A Diary of Private Prayer/Into your care, O Father, I now entrust my body and my soul.
OThou who art from everlasting to everlasting, I would turn my thoughts to Thee as the hours of darkness and of sleep begin. O Sun of my soul, I rejoice to know that all night I shall be under the unsleeping eye of One who dwells in eternal light. To thy care, O Father, I would now commend my body and my soul. All day Thou hast watched over me and Thy companionship has filled my heart with peace. Let me not go through any part of this night unaccompanied by Thee. Give me sound and refreshing sleep; Give me safety from all perils; Give me in my sleep freedom from restless dreams; Give me control of my thoughts, if I should lie awake; Give me wisdom to remember that the night was made for sleeping, and not the harbouring of anxious or fretful or shameful thoughts; Give me grace, if as I lie abed I think at all, to think upon Thee. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise Thee with joyful lips; when I remember Thee upon my bed, and meditate on T