Prayer: Temple Body with the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins

Prayers and Ponderings

Temple Body - A Prayer written and read by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins

O Love,

Bless this temple body

Given as gift by You

Enlivened by Your Spirit

For worship and work

In thanks and praise

Of all You make possible.

Form in me a reverence

For care of this gift

Of body given by You

For the purposes of love

To build Your justice joy

For the full flourishing

Of everybody’s body.

Bless my ordinary eating

With your Holy Spirit

And awaken me

To Your precious presence

Bearing Your life-giving

Energy of eternity

Here and now.

Grant me grace

To savor the sacramental sip

Of Your life-giving water

Forming and reforming

Each cell of the universe

Of universes you form

In every living body.

Quiet my mind and heart

Enough to hear Your pulse

Bearing Your life large

In this little body of me.

Yes, Love,

Bless this temple body

That I may walk and work

Speak and keep silence

And reverence this gift

Formed by You

For reverencing You

In every other body

Also formed by You.

Amen.

Prayer by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins
Intro and Outro Music by the Rev. Dr. David Long-Higgins