A Birthday Prayer for Joy

Jesu, Joy of man’s desiring, thank you for Joy’s life preserving, from the day she started breathing. For this and your constant keeping, you, her Lord this day we’re thanking. Grant her health in all her living. From your storehouse, pour out blessings. Make her life a fountain flowing, With the virtues you are giving. May Joy, in your love abiding, be a beacon brightly shining, in a world where light is fading, and souls of men in sin are dying. Grant Joy grace in all her doing, may she be a source of blessing, to the souls each day she’s meeting in the course of daily living. With your Holy Spirit leading may Joy’s faith be daily growing. Grant her guidance in her choosing May she be wise in her talking. As she waits for your appearing, Grant Joy strength in her proclaiming. Then, when Jesus comes descending, May she be with those ascending.