Lord God, who on the Friday of creation conferred on us the freedom of the earth, help us to make the most of all the choices you set before us at the dawn of birth. Give to your people confidence in striving for life that is in faith and act complete; redeem us from the blasphemy of praying with lazy hands and unintending feet. We want to BE! - so draw our will to Jesus whose cross is planted on the day we're born; then, help us to accept a life of Fridays, to call them good, and live on love alone. Lord, give us grace to honor you by choosing the risk of growing up and taking care; teach us, while wholly on your strength depending, to life our life as if you were not there.