Lord our God,
praise be to you for your creative Spirit, present in our lives today.
This evening we wish to offer you the abundant fruits that the Spirit has brought to maturity within us and in so many others:
acts of kindness and trust; the peace regained after overcoming resentment; hope and its
contagious energy that has lifted us up…
And we also wish to offer you that which cries out within us and asks to be healed: the experience of humiliation
suffered by so many victims of violence, the suffering of those living with the trauma of broken relationships,
the imbalances in our ecosystems, the pollution of water, air and farmland…
May your breath of Love give us new life, a new dawn,
through Jesus the Risen One, the Firstborn of your new creation.