(To be recited while setting up one's telescope.)
GOD, Creator of all things,
As I prepare
this evening to look upon Your works,
Grant that I
may have the wisdom to perceive You in all that You have made.
The universe
is vast, but vaster still are You.
Matter and
energy are real, but Your reality is all the greater.
The life that
arises on Your worlds is fertile and active, yet it is but a poor shadow of
Your mighty works that I can see at every hand.
If I am
humbled by my place in such a universe, it is nothing to the humility You
showed to Your people, when You assumed our form and became one of us, in the
person of Your Son, Jesus Christ.
Teach me, O
Lord, in my own life, to appreciate the majesty of all Your works, especially
the beauty of those persons near to me - to whom, with Your aid, I can be an
instrument of Your love.
As You
brought fire to the hearts of suns and galaxies, fill my heart with the fire of
Your Holy Spirit.
And help me
to remember always, that all that You have made exists to Your greater glory,
and is but a pale reflection of Your divine self, upon which I hope to look one
day… unimpeded. Amen.
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