Responding to your call, O Lord, we've come here, led by grace, where study is our offered gift, each desk, an altar-place. Here need and deep commitment met and faithfully designed this place for questing of the soul and challenge for the mind. As servants, we would search your Word and search ourselves anew, with heart and mind kept consecrate to humbly learn of you. From thoughtful, patient discipline, create each needed skill for scholars' minds and pastors' hearts apprenticed to your will. Keep stewards of your mysteries from losing awe, for time can dim the fragile edge that guards the sacred and sublime. Let those who handle holy things be nourished by them, too, and minister to all who serve in ministry with you. Lord, as we study, live, and teach the truths which make us whole, we seek to dedicate our best of body, mind, and soul; then, from the years invested here help us proclaim your worth, as we go forth and freely share Good News throughout the earth.