God, tune our hearts to your Spirit regardless of our circumstances. May we in our joys find grace to enter each other’s sorrows. May we in our sorrows find grace to embrace each other’s joy. Let us care deeply for each other as you have cared for us, and help us experience your kingdom in any and all states of our mind, life, and world. Rest on us God. Amen.

Follow along on the guided call/response:

Lead: Why are our souls so downcast, why the turmoil within us?

All: Yet we will praise him, for we place our hope in God our Savior!