Our Father, we thank you that you will ever be our lasting joy, our heart’s desire, our redemption’s spring from which flows unending mercy and love.  We praise you for destroying the bonds of death that condemned us, that you paid a ransom on Calvary that purchased our future.  Teach us to respond with devotion and gratitude for the unaccountable gift of your grace, for your peace that surpasses our understanding, for our standing before you as men and women justified and forgiven, for the glorious and eternal hope that is ours.  To you we give praise and glory!