Living God
All of life
pours out of you.
It was you
who said the word and creation came into being;
every living
plant and every imaginable living creature.
you formed the first person out of the dust, breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and the man became alive.
we hear you are the bread of life
we sing you are the resurrection and the life
You read you are the way, the truth and the life
You are all
about life.
If we wanted
life in all its fullness, where else would be go but to you.
When we
choose ways of being that stifle life, may your life burst through anyway
When we fill
our lives with junk instead of those things that make us strong and fit and
full of life, help us instead to crave those things that enliven us
When we are
intent on sitting by the lifeless remains of a dream or an idea or a beloved
something or someone and don’t notice the shoots of new life bursting forth in
a new place - in time heal our hearts and draw our eyes and our energies to life
anew
God of life,
Not even the
darkness and hopelessness of death can withstand your irrepressible Spirit of
life
God who
against all the laws of physics that we understand
Called Lazarus
from his tomb and raised your Son to life after three days.
And God who
invites us to life everlasting
God of zest and
zing
Vivacious,
eternal, God of immeasurable oomph
And God of
just enough strength to make it through another day
Take us as
we are
And breathe
your life into our being
That your
life may be known in us.
Amen
