God of life

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