A Litany of Praise
by Phillip Garcia, ofm
We praise you for rising sun and waning moon, for gently changing shades of coral and blue and gray--
We praise you for distant sound of ocean waves greeting dawn for the billionth time--
We praise you for glistening black-feathered crow, perched, surveying canyons-
We praise you for eucalyptus and pine and palm and for whispering branch symphonies played by wind--
We praise you for sound of frogs and owls and hawks filing air with morning songs--
We praise you for scurrying squirrel in search of food and for even quicker lizard basking slightly in sunlight warmth--
We praise you for butterflies and hummingbirds and bees on daily visitation of lilies and roses and geraniums--
We praise you for purring cat and friendly dog, ambassadors of original grace and love--
We praise you for sustaining all of creation in rightful posture and in holy relation--
We praise and thank you for creation's wisdom--
We praise and thank you for the life-lessons taught to us by all living beings--
We praise and thank you today and now and in all our days.
AMEN.
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