Lord God, we come to adore you. You are

Lord God, we come to adore you. You are the ground of all that is. You hold us in being, and without you we could not be.

Before we were born, before time began, before the universe came into being, you were.

When time is finished, when the universe is no more, you will still be.

Nothing can take your power from you.

And in your presence we can only be silent before the mystery of your being, for no words of ours can do justice to your grandeur.

(A silence)

Yet you have spoken to us. Out of universal silence your living word has sprung.

You…