How
extraordinary is your creation O God
How
miraculous are your ways
At night if
we step outside and train our eyes to a spot far far away
we see stars
that burn and burn over lengths of time we can hardly imagine
all created by
your hand
The stars
are there for all to see and wonder at
But how
different it feels when we know
we are loved
and known
by the one
who spread out the heavens
And much closer
to home
what a
strange thing that we all began from almost nothing
and grew
within our mothers in the dark.
Tiny blood
vessels forming,
intricate finger
bones appearing,
brains and
hearts and lungs developing
individual personalities
and giftings coming into being
even before
we were born and took our first breath for ourselves.
The creation
of a human being from nothing into something
can be
contemplated with awe by anyone
But how
extraordinary it is when we know that we were loved and known by you even
before our families met us face to face.
God our
creator,
God of love,
in this
world there is so much to gaze upon and wonder at.
Open the eyes
of our hearts as well as our outer eyes
So that we
might know deep within us
How wide,
how deep and how close your love is to each of us and to all who dwell on our
earth.
Amen
