Forgive us, God for all the things we waste: for time unheeded, talents gone to rust, for roads not taken when they seemed too rough, for good intentions left to gather dust: for thoughtless wasting of Your gifts, forgive the spendthrift way your children learn to live! Forgive us, God, extravagant misuse of goods and gifts our favored lives include, of all we keep, of all we do not need, the throwaways that of fashions and of food, the scraps of all we do not think to share. Good God, convert our currency to care! Forgive us God! We squander precious store: the water borne from lifestreams of the earth, the oil we burn without a second thought, the forests felled for profit's passing worth, for mindlessness, for human greed, forgive the way your children operate to live! O God, support us when with true intent we turn to see our lives with others' eyes, another's way to salvage and survive, another's chance to use what we despise, and shake our shallow, plastic ways of thought to see the starving world our waste has bought!