Bedtime Prayer “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep”
When I was a girl my parents would come into my bedroom and I would say this bedtime prayer. I have included the traditional version and another version that replaces the “If I die before I wake” to keep from having sensitive children worry about dying in their sleep.
Traditional version of “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.”
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
Amen.
Version 2:
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
May angels watch me through the night
And keep me in their blessed sight.
Amen.