For Your love and compassion,
And wisdom and sight,
For restraint from wrongdoing
And the will to do right.

For the new hope of morning,
And the softness of night,
For Your presence among us,
That gives our souls light.

In Your will being done, Oh God, may we see?
The equal value of lives is humanity’s key.

-Stephen Brackens Brinkley
25 November 2017