Bounty

Our great and only King,

You have made summer and winter, day and night;
each of these revolutions serves our welfare
and is full of your care and kindness.

Your bounty is seen
in the relations that train us,
the laws that defend us,
the homes that shelter us,
the food that builds us,
the raiment that comforts us,
the continuance of our health, members, senses, understanding, memory, affection, will.

But as stars fade before the rising sun,
you have eclipsed all these benefits
in the wisdom and grace that purposed
redemption by Jesus your Son.

Adapted from The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions, Arthur Bennett, editor.