A prayer for Valentine's Day

We're observing the Feast of St. Valentine with worship focused on the theme, 'Be Mine': We love because God first loved us. Here's the intercessory prayer I wrote by adapting two prayers, one from the Liturgy of the Feast of St. Valentine from the Irish Province of the Order of Carmelites and one from a prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson (Book of Common Worship: Daily Prayer, p. 440).

Eternal God, whose steadfast love endures forever, we praise and worship you as Lord of our lives on this, the feast of St Valentine.
We ask you to listen and to grant our prayers:

We pray for all who have promised to love, honor and cherish each other in marriage, that they may be strengthened through prayer and the sacraments; that they may be a witness to the world of the joy of their lives together.

We pray for those who have recently become engaged: we thank God for them and pray for them that the Lord will help them in practical ways as they prepare for their lives together and that they will be blessed with good health and material blessings. And though their eyes may be bright with love for each other, keep in sight a wider world, where neighbors want and strangers beg, and where service is a joyful sacrifice of praise.

We hear of many for whom marriage has broken down or where sickness or sadness seems to be their lot: Lord, you have promised we are never on our own…… Be with those who suffer and grant them your healing…. Be with those who go separate ways and grant them restored confidence, new understandings, healing and hope.

We pray for our family here assembled.
We thank you for this place in which we dwell,
for the love that unites us,
for the peace given us this day,
for the hope with which we look for tomorrow,
for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies
that make our lives delightful,
for our friends in all parts of the earth.
In our journey together as sisters and brothers,
Give us courage and laughter, patience and quietness.
Bless us on our journey together
and in the mission of Christ you have given us.
And grant us the strength to endure and persevere
whatever may come our way, whether of good or ill.
And in all things, keep us loyal and loving to one another.

Like the seed that falls to the ground and dies,
may we die daily to our own selfishness
so that the true wheat of love may grow in our lives
for others to see and take to heart.

All this we ask through the powerful name
of the one who loves us to the uttermost…
who taught us to pray with each other and for each other… praying…

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name,
thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.