All This Power

All this power

That we have worshipped and obeyed

And prayed to

For thousands of years,

The power to redeem and forgive, 

Create and sustain,

Comfort and heal,

Remember and bless,

All this power is ours to assign 

With fear or with familiarity

And ours to wield,

With greed or with generosity.

Or perhaps it belongs to no one

Like the dew on the fields,

Like the winds that blow

And the rains that fall. 

Amen.