Wonder yields new insights and sensations. Remember this as you pray.
Breathing in: O let me sense . . .
Breathing out: the world anew.
A Blessing for Wonder
May you experience the wonders of nature that surround you each day and night with gratitude and attention.
May you see with the eyes of a child who embraces everything for the first time with wonder and awe.
May you say oh wow when a rose blooms, a sunset paints the horizon orange, a high note is sung with passion and precision, when a baby crawls and a toddler walks.
May you be astonished with wonder upon awakening each morning that you have been given the gift of a new day.
May you wonder before you fall asleep what you will dream this night and what the next day will bring.
May you walk in wonder, speak with wonder, pray for wonder.
May you be blessed with a wonder-filled life.
— Kaki Grubbs, Spiritual Literacy Certificates Program, 2024 Cohort
Other Prayers
Blessings From Above and Below
Blessed be the transformation from fireball to the planets.
Blessed be the transformation from gas in space to solid earth.
Blessed be evolution — the unfolding of rich potentialities.
Blessed be creative expectations — hope mixed with potency.
Blessed be the Cosmic Christ, who rules from pole to pole.
Blessed be the Spirit hovering over chaos.
Blessed be angels, God's messengers of the spiritual.
Blessed be the moon, which moves the tides of our feelings.
Blessed be the sun, which blankets us with warmth.
Blessed be gravity, the allurement binding us to earth.
Blessed be the earth, which molds us.
Blessed be dancing molecules, electrons and quarks.
Blessed be speech, song, story — voices of the earth.
Blessed be electricity, which lights up our stories.
Blessed be the Internet and virtual reality.
Blessed be television and the alpha state of relaxing.
Blessed be E-mail and the instant written word.
Blessed be the cell phone that can rescue us in trouble.
Blessed be creations — natural and human —
that bring us closer the Source of all blessings.
— William John Fitzgerald in Blessings for the Fast Paced & Cyberspaced
Help Me Listen
O Holy One
I hear and say so many words,
yet yours is the word I need.
Speak now,
and help me listen
and, if what I hear is silence,
let it quiet me,
let it disturb me,
let it touch my need,
let it break my pride,
let it shrink my certainties,
let in enlarge my wonder.
— Ted Loder in Men Pray: Voices of Strength, Faith, Healing, Hope and Courage by Editors at Skylight Paths
Open My Mind
Open my mind
to understand
that what appears to be
the natural order of things
is in truth miraculous
in every way.
— Rebbe Nachman of Breslov in The Gentle Weapon by Moshe Mykoff, editor
