Prayer Offered for April 4, 2016

God of all creation,

Once again it is spring,

And the land is coming up green,

Unfolding outside our well-drawn boundaries and urgent schedules.

The willows are dripping honey color into the rivers,

And the mother birds are busy in manger nests,

And we are learning again that “for everything there is a season,

And a time to every purpose under heaven.”

O Lord, you have sketched the lines of spring.                                                   

Be with us in our unfolding.

Be with us,

By a grace, a warmth, a light,

To unfold our lives to new beginnings,

A spring within us, as well as around us. 

We ask this in your name.—AMEN.

^{(Adapted from Guerrillas of Grace, by Ted Loder.)}