O Lord, let my soul rise up to meet you
as the day rises to meet the sun.

Praise to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever.

Come, let us bow down and bend the knee : let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

Make us students of your way, Lord, that we might study war no more.

Psalm 11:1-6
In the Lord have I taken refuge : how then can you say to me, “Fly away like a bird to the hilltop;
for see how the wicked bend the bow and fit their arrows to the string : to shoot from ambush at the true of heart.
When the foundations are being destroyed : what can the righteous do?”
The Lord is in his holy temple : the Lord’s throne is in heaven.
His eyes behold the inhabited world : his piercing eye weighs our worth.
The Lord weighs the righteous as well as the wicked : but those who delight in violence he abhors.

Make us students of your way, Lord, that we might study war no more.

Deuteronomy 4:9-14
Acts 1:15-26