Gentle is the way of Jesus: gentle is the healing soul bandaging the wounds of conflict, making peace, and making whole; gentle is the loving purpose calling us to live this part, by the chemistry of kindness changing our ungentle heart. Inner violence besets us, inner sickness, born of strife: lost, our innocence as children, lost, the focus of our life, hungry in a world of plenty, thirsty in the showering rain, searching for a sense of meaning, seeking soul-food to sustain. Save us God, from what consumes us, save us from the selves we hate, bring us back into your household, to the home you would create; stir in us the daily graces that allow your way to start, keeping company with Jesus, changing our ungentle heart.