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Dear God,
thank you for all that is good,
for our creation and for our humanity,
for the gifts of life and of one another,
for your love which is unbounded and eternal.
for the food before us,
the family and friends beside us
and the love between us.
Amen.
Benedicite Aotearoa
- O give thanks to our God who is good:
whose love endures for ever. - You sun and moon, you stars of the southern sky:
give to our God your thanks and praise. - Sunrise and sunset, night and day:
give to our God your thanks and praise. - All mountains and valleys, grassland and scree,
glacier, avalanche, mist and snow:
give to our God your thanks and praise. - You kauri and pine, rata and kowhai, mosses and ferns:
give to our God your thanks and praise. - Dolphins and kahawai, sealion and crab,
coral, anemone, pipi and shrimp:
give to our God your thanks and praise. - Rabbits and cattle, moths and dogs,
kiwi and sparrow and tui and hawk:
give to our God your thanks and praise. - You Maori and Pakeha, women and men,
all who inhabit the long white cloud:
give to our God your thanks and praise. - All you saints and martyrs of the South Pacific:
give to our God your thanks and praise.
Collect
Eternal Spirit, living God,
in whom we live and move and have our being,
all that we are, have been, and shall be is known to you,
to the very secret of our hearts
and all that rises to trouble us.
Living flame burn into us,
cleansing wind, blow through us,
fountain of water, well up within us,
that we may love and praise in deed and in truth.
Amen.
