O Sovereign God over all creation,
Limitless and vast
Personal and present:
You spoke and the heavens sprung into being,
You breathed the Word and one hundred billion stars were born,
You are
majestic in Your magnitude,
powerful in Your personhood.
As our frustration rises
over the painful plodding of pixels and packets and bytes
over limited Internet bandwidths that limp along,
Remind us that You are a God who walked dusty paths
At three miles an hour,
Present to the needs around You,
Participating in the redemption of creation
One footstep at a time.
Remind us, O God of all creation, that
we are Your people, made in Your image,
we are Your people, made to follow You,
we are Your people, made to live at a pace of life
that echoes the cadence and care of Yours.
In this forced slowness,
Remind us that we are finite and limited creatures
With boundaries and bandwidths of our own.
We cannot do it all,
For You alone are God
And we are not.
But we can do something.
Help us to be faithful in the small, slow things,
And trust You to multiply the works of our hands and hearts.
For You alone are God.
We are Your people.
And though we know only in part,
We know that You are God, and we are not.
Amen.
