Let your mercy rise above us in the morning;
let compassion be a light to guide our steps.
Let our memory of you be ever dawning;
let your grace be like a sun that never sets.
As we travel on the road you lay out for us,
give us all the light we need to see the way,
and be yourself the flame that goes before us,
that in the nights we see as clear as day.
As brightly as you shine, we still will stumble;
O Savior, do not let the light go dim!
But show us to ourselves when we have crumbled,
that we may see to get back up again.
And when the darkness falls so close around us,
the nights your goodness made come softly down,
come closer still, and with your love surround us,
and shelter us where midnight peace abounds.
Kate Bluett 