Prayer

Monday August 5

Creator God,

as the summer swells

purple heathers smear moor and mountain

otters play in dappled pools while eagles sweep the heights

golden red sunsets and ochre early dawns abound

while raindrops glist the fields of ripening rapeseed.

Our hearts are full!

In other lands

the fields are bare

the sun blisters and burns

fades and fails the crops in the fields

scorching sunsets don’t bring the rains they need

while elsewhere floods drown harvests and homes.

Our hearts are full!

Are we to blame

have we become blind

to the suffering earth and its struggling peoples, 

seeing only self and those things that moth and mould

will turn to dust leaving our traces to tell of earth’s destruction

doomed by the very children you have in love created for love.

Our hearts are full!

Fill also our hands

our eyes our ears our souls

with the passion and the power

to cherish the changing seasons

to wither our wasteful ways and wonder at the beauty

born of your constancy and care for all of creation.

Our hearts are full!

Alive again to the possibility

that love can win and life can flourish

that the otter and the eagle can roam free

that the blackbird will still sing out our dawns and dusks

that people of all colours and creeds can grow and find food

for their bodies and living water to nourish their souls.

Creating God

hear our prayer

Amen.

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