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O God,
who out of nothing
brought everything that is,
out of what I am
bring more of what I dream
but haven’t dared;
direct my power and passion
to creating life
where there is death,
to putting flesh of action
on bare-boned intentions,
to lighting fires
against the midnight of indifference,
to throwing bridges of care
across canyons of loneliness;
so I can look on creation,
together with you,
and, behold,
call it very good;
through Jesus Christ my Lord.
Ted Loder, born 1930, American Methodist minister
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For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand,
that we should walk in them.
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