God our Father, in the long march of peoples crossing the land of shadows, we come
to you, in convergence, to give you thanks.
Amazed to have seen a light rise for humanity,
amazed at the whisper of hope in our hearts, we give you thanks.
For the dawn that tears through the cloak of night, for the wheat
that sprouts and cracks the earth, we give you thanks.
For the silence that awakens praise in our hearts,
for the people you visit with your tenderness, we give you thanks.