A Prayer for Thursday, July 5, 2012

Everything

Scientists announced this week that they have seen evidence of the Higgs Boson, commonly known as the “God Particle”; it is a subatomic particle that could hold the key to how the various particles that comprise everything take on mass and thus the key to how everything exists.

We marvel, O God, at the Universe you have created and are creating; we marvel at the intricate processes by which it has developed and continues to develop.

We thank you, O God, for the dedicated efforts of researchers and for the collective knowledge of scientists; we thank you for the incessant curiosity that inspires their work.

We celebrate, O God, this discovery and all discoveries that further our understanding of the physical reality in which we live; we celebrate all the positive developments and all the progress that come from such discoveries.

We repent, O God, of our tendency to take discoveries to their negative and destructive extremes; we ask that you will protect us from ourselves as we make further discoveries about the power inherent in your creation.

Even as we celebrate the deep truths that our scientists are finding about the way everything holds together, O God, we recall and celebrate the even deeper truth given to us in your Book that Christ “is before all things, and in him all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17).

That he holds all things together is ground for faith and motive for worship.

How he holds all things together is ground for science and motive for research.

Thanks be to God!

Amen.