Uncle Buddy’s Prayer: Update – Transcription Available
Check out this wonderful daily prayer that a gentleman in Pastor Beane’s church prays every day. Pastor Beane asked him to pray it and his wife taped it, after Bible class, so that explains the background noise. Below the video is a transcription that Pastor Beane kindly sent me.
Uncle Buddy’s Prayer
In the name of the Father, and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen
Heavenly Father we thank You for the many blessings that You have bestowed upon me and my family, me and my household. You have given us both temporal, earthly blessings and spiritual blessings. We do appreciate these blessings, Lord, and we thank and praise You for them. We thank You too for providing for the necessities of this life: our daily bread. You have truly exceeded our fondest hope and our greatest expectations.
But Lord, we thank You most of all for our most precious and wonderful gift, Your Son, Jesus Christ, who purchased and won us from sin, death and hell. And He did it not with gold or silver but with His holy, precious blood and his innocent suffering and death on Calvary’s cross. He, Jesus Christ, became sin for us – He who knew no sin – that we might become the righteousness of God through Him.
Lord we pray that your Holy Spirit remain with us all the days of our lives, to guide, guard and protect us and keep us in the one true saving faith, until we finally we meet You in heaven. This we pray in our blessed savior’s name. Amen.
In the name of the Father, and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Uncle Buddy adds: “And then I say the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Benediction, and then I go to bed.”
Amen. What a tremendous, meaty prayer. Thank you.
Rev. McCain,
Reflecting on this post and the one below it, “Our Solemn Duty as Lutherans”, surely this one of the great blessings of being a parish pastor–to see the profound, deeply-felt piety of many of our more mature saints. It makes the daily hardships and heartaches of being confessional Lutheran pastor worth it, a thousand times over. I was once privileged to serve an elderly parishioner who could no longer come to church on Sundays. I would send a sermon manuscript home with her daughter and my parishioner would open up her TLH hymnal, sing every verse of every hymns we sang in church, sing the entire liturgy, read the lessons, and then the sermon–the entire service from beginning to end. When I took her Holy Communion, despite having broken both hips in the years before, she would stand when I entered her home–out of respect for the pastoral office–and stand again when receiving the Body and Blood of our Lord. It was excruciating watching her rise from her chair–but she would have it no other way. What a profound blessing to have some small share in ministering to the saints of God!
Dear Paul: Thanks for posting Uncle Buddy’s prayer. He is a great inspiration to all of us. My wife transcribed the prayer, and it is now on my blog and on the YouTube description.
Here it is:
Uncle Buddy’s Prayer
In the name of the Father, and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen
Heavenly Father we thank You for the many blessings that You have bestowed upon me and my family, me and my household. You have given us both temporal, earthly blessings and spiritual blessings. We do appreciate these blessings, Lord, and we thank and praise You for them. We thank You too for providing for the necessities of this life: our daily bread. You have truly exceeded our fondest hope and our greatest expectations.
But Lord, we thank You most of all for our most precious and wonderful gift, Your Son, Jesus Christ, who purchased and won us from sin, death and hell. And He did it not with gold or silver but with His holy, precious blood and his innocent suffering and death on Calvary’s cross. He, Jesus Christ, became sin for us – He who knew no sin – that we might become the righteousness of God through Him.
Lord we pray that your Holy Spirit remain with us all the days of our lives, to guide, guard and protect us and keep us in the one true saving faith, until we finally we meet You in heaven. This we pray in our blessed savior’s name. Amen.
In the name of the Father, and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Uncle Buddy adds: “And then I say the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Benediction, and then I go to bed.”
Peace in Christ! + Larry
I would like to know this gentleman! This sounds like deep Christian piety forged in the crucible of a long life.
Thank you for publishing the transcription. It is very much appreciated by those of us with less than perfect hearing.