“Only Ours for a Season”—A Prayer for December 4, 2020
Help us to love this world, O God,
like we love our children:
knowing they have been entrusted into our hands
for a time,
but also that they will become
something beyond our wildest imaginings,
wholly new creations.
Let us hear your promise of a new heaven and earth,
not as permission for childishly wasting or exploiting,
but as the calling to care for this place, this time,
precisely because it is only ours for a season.
Teach us to love this world for all its hurts,
to bind its wounds—and one another’s—
with the same care given as for sons’ scraped knees
or daughters’ teary cheeks. Make us to see
that nothing is disposable, that all is precious,
and that everything is becoming a new creation.
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