Brendan O'Malley is Dean of the Chapel and a tutor at the University of Wales, Lampeter. In his younger years, he was a Cistercian monk. Now he is a Canon of St. David's Cathedral. O'Malley has edited and compiled this wide-ranging collection of prayers, worship services, and spiritual practices from Celtic Christianity. He is convinced that this tradition offers a rich treasure trove of resources on everyday living, place, the natural world, family, community, and devotion to God. Many of these resources tap into the creative spirit. No wonder O'Malley closes his introduction to the book with the Welsh saying "God is a lyrical poem, not an essay."

Here are some of the subjects covered in Lord of Creation:

• Praying with the Whole Person
• Contemplative Dance Eucharist
• Healing by Laying On Of Hands
• Lord of the Elements Workshop
• Agape for Earth, Water, Fire, and Air
• Sacred Landscape and Pilgrimage
• Prayer and Spirituality
• Lectio Divina — Praying the Scriptures
• Liturgy of Creation
• Psalms of Creation

Here's a prayer from the chapter "Agape for Earth, Water, Fire and Air":

"God our Lover
You draw us to search for you;
You give us clues to your presence
in creation;
earth, water; fire and air;
we find you in each other's faces,
in the challenge and the intimacy
of human love.
Yet always you elude our grasp;
familiar and yet always strange,
you both comfort and disturb our lives.
We surrender all our images of you,
and offer ourselves to your darkness;
that you may enable us to become your likeness
more than we can imagine or conceive. Amen."