Watch over our children
while they're away at college.
Defend the single mother and her child
as they travel on an unfamiliar road.
Hear us as we speak without words,
clutching our purses tighter on the city street;
rushing to close the windows
as the lightning storm approaches.
I ask for particular protection today.
Please be a fence and a fortress
to those who live alone,
to the elderly and to the disabled.
Care for those who have no one to turn to.
Extend Your umbrella of protection to cover
all of those who pray for help
and also those who don't.