Let us pray, giving thanks for the goodness
of creation:
God our Father,
we thank you for this earth, our home;
for the wide sky and the blessed sun,
for the salt, earth and the running water,
for the everlasting hills
and the never-resting winds,
for trees
and the common grass underfoot.
We thank you for our senses
by which we hear the songs of birds,
and see the splendour
of the summer fields,
and taste of the autumn fruits,
and rejoice in the feel of the snow,
and smell the breath of the spring.
6 Grant us hearts that are wide open
to all this beauty;
and save us from being so blind
that we pass unseeing
when even the common thornbush
is aflame with your glory,
O God, our Creator. Amen.
