"Father in heaven, awaken conscience within us. Teach us to open our spiritual ears to your voice and to pay attention to what you say, so that your will may sound purely and clearly for us as it does in heaven, unadulterated by worldly cunning, undeadened by the voice of passions. Keep us vigilant in fear and trembling to work out our salvation. But also—when the law speaks loudest, when its demands terrify us, when it thunders from Sinai—let there be a soft voice which whispers to us that we are your children, so that we may cry out with joy: Abba, Father."
'For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!" ' Romans 8:15
