A SPRING BLESSING OF THE WATERS

A SPRING BLESSING OF THE WATERS - 

for individuals and congregations alike

Spirit of Light and Life, Giver of All Creation,

We call upon you this day to hallow these waters. These waters rise each Spring to bring new life to the land around them and to the life within - nourishing each strand and fiber and cell of life itself.  May they find a pure and an essential place in our hearts and in our minds as well as in our bodies.

May we tend these waters with the utmost of care, being sure to keep from them any harmful impact from all we do and all we produce.  Countless years and the efforts of countless lives have gone into upgrading the streams of ours to be Exceptional Value Streams. May we honor those years, and may we honor those lives by maintaining the integrity of their exceptional value.

May our waterways be a path for opening our eyes and our hearts to beauty, to radical amazement, to awe, to wonder, and to grandeur.  May they be a path for our minds for opening to the art and artistry of their presence on human landscapes - and to all they cause us to pen and paint.  May they be a path for our bodies and our communities to find respite and recreation - wholesome play in nature - cleansing every aspect of who we are.

We commit to being stewards of these and all our waterways and all our natural resources of land, air, water and climate. 

Bless them all and preserve them - and us also, in their presence.

Amen.

Read Psalm 1: 1 - 3 in closing. 

Psalm 1

1 Blessed is the one
    who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
    or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
    which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
    whatever they do prospers.