Prayers and Ponderings

O Love,

  Bless this temple body

  Given as gift by You

  Enlivened by Your Spirit

  For worship and work

  In thanks and praise

  Of all You make possible.

 

Form in me a reverence

  For care of this gift

  Of body given by You

  For the purposes of love

  To build Your justice joy

  For the full flourishing

  Of everybody’s body.

 

Bless my ordinary eating

  With your Holy Spirit

  And awaken me

  To Your precious presence

  Bearing Your life-giving

  Energy of eternity

  Here and now. 

 

Grant me grace

  To savor the sacramental sip

  Of Your life-giving water

  Forming and reforming

  Each cell of the universe

  Of universes you form

  In every living body.

 

Quiet my mind and heart

  Enough to hear Your pulse

  Bearing Your life large

  In this little body of me.

 

Yes, Love, 

  Bless this temple body

  That I may walk and work

  Speak and keep silence

  And reverence this gift

  Formed by You

  For reverencing You

  In every other body

  Also formed by You.

                        Amen.

Prayer by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Intro and Outro Music by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins