A New Prayer

I signed up to pray for three hours this week at our prayer house in our neighborhood. It's part of a city wide chain of unbroken prayer that's going on all week. 24/7.
How fitting that our homework from Anglican Spirituality was to practice a "different" form of prayer this week. I walk in and on the walls are prayers of thanksgiving, petitions, visions, scriptures. A c.d. player in the corner singing music to meditate with. A cross that covers the entire floor to nail your confessions to, and leave them. Candles to light, a "prayer closet", a map of our city and world to notate people around the city and world that need our prayers. There are bible s and meditation books on a shelf, a Book of Common Prayer (actually two), and a journal for people to 'reflect' for the community.
The window is cracked open to let the cool autumn air in and to remind us, as we are praying, that whom we are to be lifting up at this hour, the children, the single moms, the addicts, the lonely, the poor in spirit, the widows...in our neighborhood and in our city.
I'm led to pray for marriages, mostly because two of my girlfriends are going through an awful time in their marriages so they've been heavy on my heart for some time now. But then as I'm searching for a prayer that fits their situations I find one in the *bcp* that is often used in ceremonies when folks are first getting married. It hits me that it's a blessing. I am begging God to bless my friends' marriages and tell God I won't give up until God does (See Genesis for Jacob's wrestle with God) bless them. I'm taken aback, surprised at this reaction welling up inside me. I quickly add my marriage to the list of names on this sheet of couples to pray this for as well as many others I could think of. So, now, as you read this prayer, please join me in praying for couples in your life, please add them to the list in the comment section.
Peace.

O God, you have so consecrated the covenant of marriage

that in it is represented the spiritual unity between Christ

and his Church: Send therefore your blessing upon these your

servants, that they may so love, honor, and cherish each other

in faithfulness and patience, in wisdom and true godliness,

that their home may be a haven of blessing and peace;

through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you

and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.