God, we thank you for the music in our lives, nourishing the senses as the spirit thrives, tunes that are our timeless treasures, rhythms given dance and play, harmonies whose blended beauty takes our breath away. God, we thank you for the music of the earth, for creation given voice when given birth, crashing wave and splashing water, chirping cricket, cheerful bird, murmuring of trees and grasses where the wind has stirred. God, we thank you for the music of our faith singing on through joy and trouble, life and death, journey songs of traveling people, sorrow songs that cry despair, glorias and alleluias, lifted praise and prayer. Let our world be rich with music, making peace, let the instruments of concord never cease, gather strength from all our voices, every tone we can employ: music from the heart of heaven fill our lives with joy!