Prayer Offered for January 28, 2016

            The following short poem is by Mary Oliver, from Why I Wake Early (2004):

            Song of the Builders

            On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside

            to think about God - a worthy pastime.

            Near me, I saw a single cricket;

            it was moving the grains of the hillside

            this way and that way.

            How great was its energy, how humble its effort.

            Let us hope it will always be like this,

            each of us going on

            in our inexplicable ways

            building the universe.

            Creator of Mystery and Wonder, grant that this day we may go about our work with the humility of the cricket and the joy of being human.

We ask this in Your name.—AMEN.