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There is a wonderful prayer in William John Fitzgerald’s book;
A CONTEMPORARY NORTH AMERICAN PRAYER BOOK that I want to share with you. It counsels us to read slowly and reflectively. I have substituted beings for fellows in verse five and comapnionship for fellowship in verse six.
THE GREAT STORY Fifteen billion years ago--
bursting out of stillness,
billowing forth,
radiating out,
dust gathers,
stars form.
Light
cartwheels,
somersaults,
traces its own trajectory
across the expanding universe.
Eventually--
the forests sing with the wind,
the oceans dance with the moon,
the stars blink their cosmic code.
I was there!
Every element in my body
radiated out with the fireball.
As were all beings--
the four legged,
the winged ones,
the finned and the furred.
We all began in radiance
and are meant to live together
in mutually enhancing companionship.
I was made from radiance.
Made to shine.
Made to burst forth.
This day among fifteen
billion years
might seem as nothing.
But for me it is everything--
twenty-four hours of potency!
Bless this day,
and all the days of our lives
as they unfurl from your
gracious hand,
O Creator God!
Delmarie Gibney, Director
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