O God in whom all life begins, who births the seed to fruit, bestow your blessing on our lives; here let your love find root. Bring forth in us the Spirit's gifts of patience, joy, and peace; deliver us from numbing fear, and grant our faith increase. Unite in mutual ministry our minds and hands and hearts that we may have the grace to seek the pow'r your peace imparts. So let our varied gifts combine to glorify your Name that in all things by word and deed we may your love proclaim. Through tears and laughter, grief and joy, enlarge our trust and care; so bind us in community that we may risk and dare. Be with us when we gather here to worship, sing, and pray, then send us forth in pow'r and faith to live the words we say.