'Ordinary Time'

This Creative Day

Strong, evolutionary God,

we bless you for this creative day,

for all the novelty and variation

that surrounds each moment

with possibility and hope.

We bless you for the life we have.

We bless you for the energy and intelligence,

especially the energies of love and inventiveness.

We bless you for the future,

for each self-reproducing molecule in our bodies

that sweetly carries from one generation to the next

the instructions for the design of future living things

linked to us

and encompassed in our love.

we desire today to be instruments

of your open-ended dreams.

May it be so.

William Cleary