Listening to Spring

Creation

27 Nov

Written By Sisters of Mercy Parramatta

How quietly the earth breathes forth new life.
I am listening
I am listening to seeds breaking open,
to roots growing strong beneath the ground,
to green shoots rising up from winter wombs.
I am listening to barren branches laughing out new growth,
to wildflowers dancing through the meadows.

I am listening to the forest filling up with song.
I am listening to the earth filling up with life.
I am listening to trees filling up with blossom.
I am listening to the growing in the garden of my heart.
I am listening to my heart singing songs of resurrection.
I am listening to the colours of life.
I am listening to the poetry of spring.
*Macrina Wiederkehr osb*

Intercessions

As we greet with joy this season of spring we pray:

**Ever-present Creating God, be with us.**
May our hearts open in wonder at the beauty of creation.

**Ever-present Creating God, be with us.**
May we work this spring to restore some part of suffering creation.

**Ever-present Creating God, be with us.**
May our deeds be done in gentleness and compassion.
**Ever-present Creating God, be with us.**
May hearts be moved to help refugees and asylum seekers.
**Ever-present Creating God, be with us.**
In silence let us remember the sick…………………………………….

**Ever-present Creating God, be with us.**

Spring Prayer

Come! Come encourage what needs to be born in us
Draw us out of winter’s nurturing womb.
Teach us to believe in our unopened buds.
Accompany us into a world starved for new life.
O Come!

Come! Come laugh us out of our rigidity.
Lighten hearts grown weary with anxiety.
Send us out to the meadows to play like a child.
Rise up in our souls with lighhearted joy.
O come!

Joyce Rupp