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By Ed Hays
Created Nov 06, 2009

O spirit of God’s eternal springtime heart,
grant me the virtue of elasticity.

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Inspired, I squeeze the last drop of joy
out of each day, not because I’ll die,
but because You have made life’s joys
appetizers of the delight of arriving.

From Book of Wonders by Ed Hays

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The road home, O God, seems long
and at times is difficult and painful.

Grant me a holy communion, a companionship with others,
as I journey homeward to you.

By Ed Hays

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Star-gazing prayer staggers the mind,
infinite is the space between us.
O Stars, contemplating you humbles me
and shrinks me down to my proper size.

From Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim by Ed Hays

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When speeding through life, deputize me
to arrest myself and sermonize me,
“I caught you speeding. Slow down,”
lest in that whizzing by I miss you.

From A Book of Wonders by Ed Hays

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Catholic Climate Covenant

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Inside this visible world is another hidden world, the subatomic world. The term used to describe what happens inside this subatomic world is quantum vacuum. Amazingly, 90 percent of each atom is empty space, a vacuum. And the electrons and particles inside each atom appear to be whirling around as they come forth from “nothingness,” only to again disappear back into it.

Hidden within everything
is a second energetic cosmos,
all-nourishing wonder
at the heart of all life.

From A Book of Wonders by Ed Hays

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To enjoy life as an exciting adventure,
more thrilling than any roller coaster,
I strive not to be in control of anything,
being safety-belted secure in your love.

From A Book of Wonders by Ed Hays

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When I discover I’m in a lifeless place—
a party or in a church—show to me the exit!
Encountering those with icy cold faces,
alert me lest I suffer heart-soul frostbite.

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Help me turn my problems upside down,
forgetting the rules of logic and tradition,
my fears of what the neighbors will say,
to be inspired by the Mother of Invention.

Fr. Ed Hays

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