"in this time of our deep need, begin again to help us,
as you did in years gone by." Habakkuk 3:2
begin again to heal our land
begin again to raise up leaders who
speak with truth and live by integrity
begin again to make peace where there is strife
begin again to restore what is broken
begin again to build up
relationships in the family, in the community, in the church,
in the school, in the marketplace, in the world where
hope is believed and faith is lived and love is spoken
begin again to heal hurt between fathers and daughters,
mothers and sons, grandparents and grandchildren
begin again to rule and to bring justice
to lead and to show compassion
on the orphan and the slave,
the widow and the wounded,
the lost and the rejected,
the prisoner and the addict
begin again to conquer darkness
and defeat illness
and destroy death
begin again, in me
begin again in my marriage, my parenting,
my leading, and my praying,
my teaching and my ministering,
begin again, in me
