Daily Prayer - Fearfully and wonderfully made

Good Friday morning, my friends.

This week a friend of mine gave me a book by J. Philip Newell entitled "Celtic Benediction".  (Thanks, Brian!)  It is a beautiful collection of Celtic prayers.  

The prayer below is a celebration of God's great love when He chose us to be born in His image.  He still deeply loves you and me.

For you created my inmost being;

    you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

    your works are wonderful,

    I know that full well. - (Psalm 139:13-14)

Grace and peace and His love be yours in abundance,

Bruce

That wisdom was born with me in the womb

thanks be to you. O God.

That your ways have been written into 

that human body and soul

there to be read and reverenced

thanks be to you.

Let me be attentive 

to the truths of these living texts.

Let me learn

of the law etched into the whole of creation

that gave birth to the mystery of life

and feeds and renews it day by day.

Let me discern the law of love in my own heart

and in knowing it 

obey it.

Let me be set free by love. O God.

Let me be set free to love.

(J Philip Newell - Celtic Benediction)