God! When human bonds are broken and we lack the love or skill to restore the hope of healing, give us grace and make us still. Through that stillness, with your Spirit come into our world of stress, for the sake of Christ forgiving all the failures we confess. You in us are bruised and broken: hear us as we seek release from the pain of earlier living; set us free and grant us peace. Send us, God of new beginnings, humbly hopeful into life; use us as a means of blessing: make us stronger, give us faith. Give us faith to be more faithful, give us hope to be more true, give us love to go on learning: God! Encourage and renew!