Bring More of What I Dream

O God,
who out of nothing
     brought everything that is
out of what I am
     bring more of what I dream
           but haven’t dared;
direct my power and passion
     to creating life
           where there is death
     to putting flesh of action
           on bare-boned intentions,
     to lighting fires
           against the midnight of indifference,

      to throwing bridges of care
           across canyons of loneliness;
so I can look on creation,
     Together with you,
           and, behold,
                  call it very good;
through Jesus Christ my Lord.

Ted Loder