1 God of hope and Lord of healing, we come to you in prayer; in our living, in our dying, you promise to be there. For the weak we ask your courage, and your patience for the strong; stay with those whose pain is sharpest and those enduring long: and provide for all the weary your precious gift of sleep; with the glad let us be joyful, and weep with those who weep. 2 By the grace of your forgiveness, by virtue of your word, by the sacrament which brings us the comfort of our Lord; by the life he freely gave us, and the cross to which he came, by the glory of his kingdom, the power of his name: come to meet your praying people, be with us as we kneel; come to help us, God our Saviour, for you alone can heal.