A RESEARCHER’S PRAYER

Our Lord, how awesome is your creation;

Its depth none of us can fathom;

Its vast expanse none of us can trail;

Sans Your Wisdom, our effort’s bound to fail.

Father, life’s beset with puzzlement;

Why’s and how’s are asked in each moment;

Change is what is constant in man’s ways;

The more we seek life’s truth, the more it strays.

I acknowledge that it is You who hold

        the truth which you constantly unfold;

The Truth Himself, Your guidance I as for  . . .

        on my own, futile is each endeavor.

Grant that I always be a searcher

        for ways to make human life better;

Be may it ever be my higher aim

        to be man’s helper, equipped . . . and willing.

Amen.

-      a servant and seeker, Philip

        June 2, 2009