To Hear Our Calling Through Creation* Holy One,bless us with the wisdomto live fully as the people you created us to be,with no doubt or hesitation.Help us to become people who know our sacred purpose like an oak tree possesses majesty,an owl owns the night, a stream quietly sings,and marigolds lift their faces with joy. May the fireflies light our way in the darkness,may the morning glory spark gratitude for a new day,may the witness of feather and hoof,leaf and light, reveal to us what it means to betruly, wholly, fully ourselves.Break open the sacred seed of your Spirit planted

For Kinship with Creation*God of lavish fecundity,you overflow into nature in every moment,offering your gifts of beauty and nourishment.Nurture me with sacred rhythms of light and dark,rising and falling, fullness and emptiness,as the pulse of your loving presence animates every living thing.Help me to remember my own wildnessso that I come to knowevery bird, fish, insect, and animalas kinand to live in ways that renew and sustainearth and all her systems.Renew my vision so that I seebeyond the barriers I have constructed.Kindle my longing to join the great songof the sea, the trees, the mountains, and the flowers,which are already