“God our Father, you see your children growing up in an unsteady and confusing world: Show them that your ways give more life than the ways of the world, and that following you is better than chasing after selfish goals. Help them to take failure, not as a measure of their worth, but as a chance for a new start. Give them strength to hold their faith in you, and to keep alive their joy in your creation; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.” ~ Book of Common Prayer.”

Unsteady and confusing world?
Could that have been more true
in 1549 than now? God our Father,
show us, your children,
that your ways give more life
than the ways of the world,
and that following you
is better than chasing
after selfish goals.
Give us strength
to hold our faith in you,
and to keep alive
our joy in your creation.