Eternal Spirit,

Earth Maker, Pain bBarer, Life giver,

Source of all that is and that shall be.

Father and Mother of us all,

Loving God in heaven,

May the hallowing of your name echos through the universe!

May the way of your jhustice be followed by all people!

May your heavenly will be done by all created beings!

May your peace and freedom sustain our hope on earth.

With the bread we need for today, feed us.

In the hurts we absorb from others, forgive us.

in times of temptation and testing, strengthen us.

From trials to great to endure, spare us.

From the grip of all that is evil, free us.

For you reign in the glory of the power that is love,

Now and forever.

Amen.

• Jim Cotter, Prayer at Night: A Book for the Darkness, Cairns Publications, 1991.