Meditations
Gary KowalskiFor an intergenerational worship service on ecology
We give thanks for the earth and its creaturesand are grateful from A to Z:
For alligators, apricots, acorns and apple trees;
For bumblebees, bananas, blueberries and beagles;
Coconuts, crawdads, cornfields and coffee;
Daisies, elephants, and flying fish;
For groundhog, glaciers and grasslands;
Hippos and hazelnuts, icicles and iguanas;
For juniper, jackrabbits and junebugs;
Kudzo and kangaroos, lightning bugs and licorice;
For mountains and milkweed and mistletoe;
Narwhals and nasturtiums, otters and ocelots;
For peonies and persimmons and polar bears;
Quahogs and Queen Anne's Lace;
For raspberries and roses;
Salmon and sassafras, tornadoes and tulipwood;
Urchins and valleys and waterfalls;
Yaks and yams and yogurt.
We are grateful, good Earth, not least of all,
For zinnias, zucchini, and zebras,
And for the alphabet of wonderful things
that are simple as ABC.
Source: 1997 UUMA Worship Materials Collection
Copyright: The author has given Unitarian Universalist Association member congregations permission to reprint this piece for use in public worship. Any reprints must acknowledge the name of the author.
Last updated on Wednesday, August 29, 2007.
