Today in this fateful hour

Good morning friends, awake and asleep. We thank God for the rest. Today in this fateful hour I place all Heaven with its power, and the sun with its brightness, and the rain with its chill, and fire with all the strength it has, and lightning with its rapid wrath, and the winds with their swiftness along their path, and the sea with its deepness, and the rocks with their steepness, and the Earth with its starkness– all these I place, by God’s almighty help and grace, between ourselves and the powers of darkness.