Lord -
We fear You and hope in Your steadfast love. Your graciousness makes us sing fitting songs of praise.
Build up Your people, Lord. Gather the outcasts, lift up the downtrodden, heal the brokenhearted, and bind up our wounds.
Remind us of Your abundant power and greatness - a power and greatness that nourishes the earth with rain, makes grass grow, feeds the animals, and tends to the ravens’ cries.
In the name of the One who numbers and names the stars, we pray and we praise.
Amen.