O God who gives us life and breath, who shapes us in the womb, who guards our lives from birth to death, then leads us from the tomb: deliver us from fears that kill the life we have from you; help us to know your Spirit still is making all things new. O God who calls your people out, to venture and to dare, to plumb the bleak abyss of doubt and find you even there: when we despair in wandering through wastes of empty lies, refresh us with the living spring of hope that never dies. O God of covenant and law, revealed in cloud and flame, your mighty deeds evoke our awe; we dare not speak your Name. Yet we by faith are drawn to you and will your people prove, as on our hearts you write anew the covenant of love.