This is the place and this is the time

This is the place and this is the time:
here and now God waits to break into our experience:

to change our minds,
to change our lives,
to change our ways;

To make us see the world
and the whole of life
in a new light;

To fill us with hope,
joy, and certainty
for the future.

This is the place,
as are all places;
this is the time,
as are all times.

O God of this place,
and every place,
God of this time,
and all time,
here and now,
we praise you.