Dear God help us speak true
that we might move beyond
our narrow certainties
into your wide mystery

Dear God help us speak true
not act as if we speak for You
but to listen while we sing
about Your Love and what It brings

Dear God help us live right
not by cruel violent might
but help us to make gentle the space
where human souls meet face to face

Dear God help us to paint this moment
as it really is
past gnarled waters and what they foment
to where healing lives

Dear God turn us inside out
that we might avoid the crime
of shove of push of lie of shout
help us keep your sacred gentle time