Prayer for Good Health

O great and good God, who made this vast and beauty-filled creation,

You have given us bodies of a fine magnificence, and

It is our faith that you have breathed into our being your very image and likeness.

We give you glory and thanksgiving for these eyes, hands, muscles, nerves, feet--

We thank you for light and darkness and for the never-ending shower of your gifts.

We ask for health, that our body will be free from accidental falls and cuts,

That we will be spared the assault of those of your creatures--

The germ and virus, our cousins, who work their ways against our will.

May you heal all those who suffer, who have fallen, who have been wounded in combat--

Those of us who see their days lengthen as the number of our days decline. 

We ask that you keep us brightly alert

So that we may see more deeply into the fine magnificence

Of our body’s workings,

And see more clearly your love in your creation. 

Jim Bolner, Sr.

January, 2007