Everywhere is the green of new growth,

The amazing sight of the renewal of the earth.

We watch the grass once again emerging from the ground.

We notice the bright green atop the dark green on

the pine, the fir, the hemlock, the spruce, the cedar.

The alder is already in leaf.

The old plum trees still blossom, leaf and give forth fruit.

The locus is late as always.

Everywhere and always the song birds. . . bees

raiding the orchard, raccoon prowling at  nightfall, the earthworm tunneling the garden, chickens and rabbits pecking and nibbling, the goats tugging to reach new delights. . . all are the ubiquitous energies of life.

O Lord,

May we today be touched by grace, fascinated and moved by this your creation, energized by the

power of new growth at work in your world.

May we move beyond viewing this life only through a frame, but

touch it and be touched by it, know it and be known by it, love it and be loved by it.

May our bodies, our minds, our spirits, learn a new rhythm paced by the rhythmic pulse of the  whole created order.

May spring come to us, be in us, and recreate life in us.

May we forge a new friendship with the natural world and discover a new affinity with beauty,

with life, and with the Cosmic Christ in whom all things were created in heaven and on earth,

visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities. . . for

all things were created through him and for him.

In his name.  Amen.

~CHINOOK PSALTER