Take No Good Thing for Granted

Creator-God, Father,

Today we would take no part of your good creation for
granted. We thank you for lungs that absorb your oxygen and release our carbon dioxide.
We thank you for hearts that keep up the rhythm for our pulsing blood. We thank
you for bones that fortify us.

We are grateful today for green plants and blue sky, not to
be taken as our due, but to be received as magnificent gift. Rice, potatoes,
and cassava are your provision. We appreciate trees— cypress, sassafras, maple.
We rest against their trunks, we drink their tea, we savor their sap.

You have set for us a mysterious world to explore. Neutrinos
and quarks; cell nuclei and mitochondria; DNA, RNA, and the human genome. Light,
both wave and particle. Is the variety of color infinite or does it just seem
so?

Every piece of your work shouts your name. Had we ears
to hear, the reverberations would split our eardrums. Today, we want to join
that unheard song of praise. Thank you for listening.