Benediction

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Accessible text:

Look to the creatures of the land. Ask them.
Look to the creatures of the sky. Ask them.
Look to the soil, plants, rocks, and creeping things. Contemplate.
Look to the creatures of the water. Contemplate.

     Ask, for they will teach you. They will tell you.
     Contemplate, for they will teach you. They will declare to you.

     Listen, and hear the song of their response.
          Of them, who knows
          the hand of God
          has done it all?

Ask and look again. What is the breath in every living thing?
     He is the breath in every living thing.
Listen and look again. Where are the lives of every living thing?
     In his hands are the lives of every living thing.

(Adapted from Job 12:7-10)