
O GOD,
we thank you for this earth, our home; for the wide sky and the blessed
sun, for the ocean and streams, for the towering hills and the
whispering wind, for the trees and green grass.
We thank you for our senses by which we hear the
songs of birds, and see the splendor of fields of golden wheat, and
taste autumn's fruit, and rejoice in the feel of snow, and smell the
breath of spring flowers.
GRANT US
a heart opened wide to all this beauty; and save us from being so blind
that we pass unseeing when even the common thornbush is aflame with your
glory.