Give of rest, bringer of peace, easer of burdens, source of all life and joy be close to us. Tune our hearts to your presence. Let all that is within us and around us sing your praise in all circumstances. You hold us close and you hear the cry of our hearts. When we are in desolate places you call water out of the rocks. When we are pressed, we are not crushed. When we face fire and flood, you make a dry path and we are not burned. You refine us and you are our great abundance. Your grace will sustain us. Go before us and level the mountains. In all trial may we cling to you. Give us rest for our souls. Teach us tenderness. Let us daily dress in compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Let us overflow out to each other what you have poured out to us, that we would endure with one another, forbearing and forgiving as freely and fully as you have done for us through great sacrifice, out of love and promise keeping. Bend our knees to you out of reverence and awe and gratitude and surrender and submission. Restore right order to our lives and fullness to our hearts. Let the cry of the story of our lives be: Come and see what God has done for us! He has done for us what we could not do for ourselves. How awesome are his works on our behalf.