Resurrection Stretch - A Prayer, by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Blossoming God,
Open the petals
Of my often closed life
With Your irresistible light
Of goodness and grace
Revealing resurrection
Surprises at every turn.
Stretch every petal of me
Too often closed to You
And Your promises
Of possibilities unknown
Except by consent
To Your motion of Love.
By this of You
Reveal the beauty
You plant by seed
Into every living being
Impossible to know
In its buried beginning
Yet made visible
In a time envisioned
By Your loving desire.
Yes, stretch me open
Into awe and wonder
At Your blossoming beauty
In every living being
And even in me.
Let this of Your Christ-love
Pull wide the petals
Of Your whole creation
In response to Your light
Of soaking, searching love
Touching earth with eternity.
And may Your hidden beauty
Rise again and again today
In the midst of ordinary turns
Made extraordinary
In the noticing,
The savoring,
And the thanksgiving
Called forth
By these amazing moments
You so readily reveal.
And let it cause
Just enough
Resurrection revelry
To stop the madness
And turn the world
And me toward You.
Amen.
Music: Waking Us by Quiet Lake