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46 Eggs and Ashes

Lord of energy, teach us to pray …

Our Creator,
source of all power,
we want to align ourselves like iron filings to your magnet.
We want to be drawn to your intent;
to live in a society that responds to your beckoning,
to feel the surge of your life-giving energy.
Grant us wisdom in our use of physical energy.
Help us to live by the standards we choose,
not those of others:
to focus our desire on you,
not the fake comforts of modern living;
to be satisfied by a sense of your love,
not our own power or status.
Because we know that your way is the only true way,
that everything we love and are is a gift from you,
and that to know you as our Creator
is to glimpse eternity.

John Polhill

The be-attitudes

Blessed are those who use low-energy light bulbs,
for theirs is the light of God’s wisdom.

Blessed are those who travel by train,
for their lives are on God’s track.

Blessed are those who choose a car with low fuel consumption,
for they are in God’s fast lane.

Blessed are those who insulate their homes,
for theirs is the warmth of God’s love.

Blessed are you when you put yourselves out
to use energy from renewable sources,
for you have kindled the flame of the future.

John Polhill