Awesome God, God of all abundance, as we approach mid-summer we revel in the exuberance of nature and in the promise of fruitfulness to come; we are full of wonder as through Jesus we learn of your love, and find that love ‘poured into our hearts’ through your Holy Spirit, your grace-gift to us; and we are amazed as through your power working in us, we discover we are able to do ‘immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine’. All this for us, Lord! And so we ask that you open our eyes to recognise those glimpses of your beauty in the world around us, our minds to savour all you would teach us, and that our hearts may be so open to receive your love that it may overflow into the lives of those around us. And, through this, bear the fruit of those who have been abundantly blessed – and all of it to your praise and glory.
Amen
Liz Stuart