Chapter 8- Engineering: Prayer

A Prayer for Good Engineering

To Master Gravity

& the Stonemason’s Plinth …

Beloved Order,

You who bring the workman his purpose and result,

You who define landscapes and invoke great machineries,

With intricate systems of Creation and then later created,

In design-given life, that by structure we perceive form …

You, of the great Temples, the very annexes to Heaven,

First ship, first town, first waterway with bridge as road …

With fibrous tenacity, and crystalline strength woven through- 

Be here with us and bless us with this most practical of knowing,

Amen