Prayer Offered for February 29, 2016

Divine Spirit,

Creator of every kind of paradox and puzzle,

Our mystification must be Your joy.

Why else would You hide Yourself so effectively?

We ask You to take us gently toward the light

And persuade us to learn wisdom from the alive and elegant universe.

Our prayers and philosophizing will guide us gradually through the unknown

To help us sense Your holy presence,

And learn which convictions of ours are promising, and which are illusory.

In awe, we know Your heart,

And admire Your astounding generosity.

You are our God, the God with us and beyond us.

We hope to be Your joy.—Amen. 

(Adapted from William Cleary, Prayers to an Evolutionary God.)