Dear God, you know
just what we need
before we ask you,
for in our hearts
are groans that words
cannot express, and yet,
those are the very
breaths, the very sighs
making us like you.

For that is how
you breathe your life
and send your spirit
out into the world
to make things new.

And so to yearn,
to sigh for good
is what we need
to do, to be
what this world needs –
for this world needs
you and only you.

Help us to make
something around us new,
something around us good,
something around us beautiful,
like you are beautiful.