Prayer: Resurrection Stretch, with the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins

Prayers and Ponderings

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