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title: "Short Christian Prayers: Simple Words for Everyday Life"
description: "Use familiar Christian prayers and short forms for meals, Christmas, peace, and daily life."
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# Short Christian prayers to use

Borrowed words can carry prayer when your attention is thin. Use them as written or let each line open into your own words.

5 guides in this topic

## Known prayers, simple forms, and words you can make your own.

[**Pray through the Lord's Prayer slowly**Understand the Lord's Prayer one line at a time, compare common wording, and use its structure for your own prayer today.](https://prayerguide.co.uk/guides/lords-prayer)

[**Simple prayers before a meal**Choose a short mealtime prayer for everyday food, children, guests, celebrations, and times when the table feels strained.](https://prayerguide.co.uk/guides/mealtime-prayers)

[**Use the Serenity Prayer in a difficult situation**Understand the Serenity Prayer and use its three movements to sort what you must accept, change, or discuss with someone wise.](https://prayerguide.co.uk/guides/serenity-prayer)

[**Pray with the words linked to St Francis**Explore the prayer linked to St Francis, its call to become an instrument of peace, and a practical way to live one line today.](https://prayerguide.co.uk/guides/st-francis-prayer)

[**A Christmas prayer for home or church**Use a clear Christmas prayer that holds joy, pressure, grief, hospitality, and the hope Christians find in the birth of Jesus.](https://prayerguide.co.uk/guides/christmas-prayer)

Need a quick start?

**Use the first practice in any guide. It takes two to five minutes.**[Write a short prayer](https://prayerguide.co.uk/tools/prayer-builder)