Before an Operation

Loving Father, I entrust myself to Your care this day, guide with wisdom and skill the minds and hands of those who minister in Your Name; and grant that every cause of illness being removed, I may be restored to soundness of health and learn to live in more perfect harmony with You and with my fellow man, through Jesus Christ.  Amen.

After an Operation

Blessed Savior, I thank You that this operation is safely past, and now I rest in your abiding presence, relaxing every tension, releasing every care and anxiety, receiving more and more of Your healing life into every part of my being; in moments of pain I turn to You for strength, in times of loneliness I feel Your loving nearness; and then grant that Your life and love and joy may flow through me for the healing of others in Your name.  Amen.