This prayer was written by Bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani, an Iranian-born British Anglican bishop, currently serving as Bishop of Chelmsford. She was born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1966. Her father Hassan Dehqani-Tafti was the Anglican Bishop in Iran from 1961 until his retirement in 1990, serving also as President Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, 1976–1986.