Praise the Lord of gladness in your grief:
~~the solstice may shift, but the sun is the same.
Praise the Lord of acceptance in your anger;
~~praise the Lord of confidence in your fear.
Praise the Lord of eternity in your earthly life:
~~the Lord of beginning of enlightenment is end without end.
Showing posts with label psalms on our lips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psalms on our lips. Show all posts
3/2/12
2/28/12
Psalm 149
Merciful Lord, Your myriad mercies—
~~and I, like a forest at the timberline—my musings and metaphors.
Merciful Lord, Your multitude of mercies—my years of sin—
~~if I had words . . .
~~and I, like a forest at the timberline—my musings and metaphors.
Merciful Lord, Your multitude of mercies—my years of sin—
~~if I had words . . .
2/26/12
Psalm 148
A child of God is a wonder;
~~the wonder of God is a child.
The wonder child at play is king and pauper, feast and crust.
~~Ah, child wonder, stormy season, young bud love!
The spirit of truth, like science, grasps it;
~~the truth of spirit, like art, releases it.
I am that child;
~~that child: I am.
~~the wonder of God is a child.
The wonder child at play is king and pauper, feast and crust.
~~Ah, child wonder, stormy season, young bud love!
The spirit of truth, like science, grasps it;
~~the truth of spirit, like art, releases it.
I am that child;
~~that child: I am.
Psalm 146
The first step is no slight foot;
~~the first step is no narrow gain on a willing map.
Hail storms the summer pasture;
~~hail storms the sleeping homeland the way illness brings desire for better.
Hail summons a start;
~~hail summons the one ready to follow faith’s path.
~~the first step is no narrow gain on a willing map.
Hail storms the summer pasture;
~~hail storms the sleeping homeland the way illness brings desire for better.
Hail summons a start;
~~hail summons the one ready to follow faith’s path.
Psalm 145
God Within, my guardian, disclose my soul, crest of an honest life:
~~not unlike the peacock, plainly a simple bird, simply a splendid bird.
~~not unlike the peacock, plainly a simple bird, simply a splendid bird.
2/22/12
Psalm 144
Listen, Lord, and hasten:
~~hear my plea.
Teach me the unheard language of peace;
~~let me learn to speak through my tongue of tears.
Words of war increase my fear:
~~they have become too heavy for me to bear.
But Your word is great:
~~You can create from death.
If you leave me, who can lead me?
~~If you retreat, my hope will be like the weary wail of the
last leaf, leashed to a snow-leaning tree.
~~hear my plea.
Teach me the unheard language of peace;
~~let me learn to speak through my tongue of tears.
Words of war increase my fear:
~~they have become too heavy for me to bear.
But Your word is great:
~~You can create from death.
If you leave me, who can lead me?
~~If you retreat, my hope will be like the weary wail of the
last leaf, leashed to a snow-leaning tree.
Psalm 143
Why deprive me, Lord, when You are king of everything;
~~when you hold all life’s wonder in Your hand?
And why make man depend on earth,
~~when his soul is all he really has?
How can I divine the days of my life
~~when You are author of both faith and wealth, maker of
both mirage and miracle, worker of the ocean and an ocean in a conch shell?
~~when you hold all life’s wonder in Your hand?
And why make man depend on earth,
~~when his soul is all he really has?
How can I divine the days of my life
~~when You are author of both faith and wealth, maker of
both mirage and miracle, worker of the ocean and an ocean in a conch shell?
Psalm 142
A hateful mortal cannot be like the friends of God;
~~the friends of God are like a mist lifting, a wound
healing, green fruit ripening.
A hater is like a sword stuck in stone, defeated before one
has begun;
~~but the friends of God are like the blade set free: deed
and champion, reason and reflection.
~~the friends of God are like a mist lifting, a wound
healing, green fruit ripening.
A hater is like a sword stuck in stone, defeated before one
has begun;
~~but the friends of God are like the blade set free: deed
and champion, reason and reflection.
Psalm 141
Building up is a bowing down:
~~raising the world is an offering placed on the path of the
Lord.
Work is as sacred as speaking the words of the Book;
~~care is as pure as sounding the hymns of heaven.
Greater than gold is one’s calling:
~~glad is the girder calling the name of the Lord.
~~raising the world is an offering placed on the path of the
Lord.
Work is as sacred as speaking the words of the Book;
~~care is as pure as sounding the hymns of heaven.
Greater than gold is one’s calling:
~~glad is the girder calling the name of the Lord.
2/18/12
Psalm 140
End my pain, Lord, the way spring ends winter, the way sunshine ends a rain, the way laughter reshapes the air;
~~finish my suffering, please, the way song ends silence, the way bread breaks separateness, the way a friend turns when called by name.
Strength, I need it; thanks, I have none.
~~I am weak, but You are strong.
If there be no end, then make me able;
~~and when I find no finish, make me thankful.
~~finish my suffering, please, the way song ends silence, the way bread breaks separateness, the way a friend turns when called by name.
Strength, I need it; thanks, I have none.
~~I am weak, but You are strong.
If there be no end, then make me able;
~~and when I find no finish, make me thankful.
Psalm 139
Oh that men would live like a shout of stars, bright taste in the night sky;
~~oh that men would dream with a tiger’s eye, would stir deep chambers with vulcanian desire.
Oh that men would not seek easy rest, but steer the torch of vesuvian fire;
~~oh that men of God would quest, not like a sparkle’s spark, but like light light in the dark dark.
~~oh that men would dream with a tiger’s eye, would stir deep chambers with vulcanian desire.
Oh that men would not seek easy rest, but steer the torch of vesuvian fire;
~~oh that men of God would quest, not like a sparkle’s spark, but like light light in the dark dark.
Psalm 137
Like a find of berries in winter is forgiveness;
~~like hyacinths springing to life in the tender season are favors of human kindness.
Like a shadow, best seen in the brightest sun, is patience;
~~like an echo, best heard from the purest voice, is humility:
~~like a pond’s reflection is virtue, greatest shown by the tree of the highest nature.
~~like hyacinths springing to life in the tender season are favors of human kindness.
Like a shadow, best seen in the brightest sun, is patience;
~~like an echo, best heard from the purest voice, is humility:
~~like a pond’s reflection is virtue, greatest shown by the tree of the highest nature.
12/23/11
Psalm 135
Pastel petals, bright-ripened spikes; bitter medicine from sweet poison:
~~my Lord, the giver.
Camouflaged predator, camouflaged prey; clever cover with clear purpose:
~~my Lord, the giver.
Measurement, infinity; oneness and one:
~~my Lord, the giver.
Natural disaster, natural wonder; folding an order in forming another:
~~my Lord, the giver, giver of treasure, coin of loss and gain.
~~my Lord, the giver.
Camouflaged predator, camouflaged prey; clever cover with clear purpose:
~~my Lord, the giver.
Measurement, infinity; oneness and one:
~~my Lord, the giver.
Natural disaster, natural wonder; folding an order in forming another:
~~my Lord, the giver, giver of treasure, coin of loss and gain.
10/15/11
Psalm 133
Contented generations worship in the traditions of their fathers;
~~the centered bend their knees from the loins of their origins.
Believers sense Your wonder, Lord, and find a towering view;
~~they realize Your reason in their minds.
But I am poor in You, Lord; I mourn with the orphan,
~~and I hold nothing greater than the openness of his hand.
~~the centered bend their knees from the loins of their origins.
Believers sense Your wonder, Lord, and find a towering view;
~~they realize Your reason in their minds.
But I am poor in You, Lord; I mourn with the orphan,
~~and I hold nothing greater than the openness of his hand.
9/8/11
Psalm 131
Saving Grace, save us from the safe war, unmanned arms that captivate our minds: at their impact, I quake.
~~God, spare us the undeclared war, the terror of surrender to it: this new wave.
~~Set down the horror of remote war: the minute detail it leaves in its wake.
We praise the wonder of wireless fire,
~~we prize the ash of earth where we see the target die,
~~and we believe this artificial ease will become less dire.
Keep us, Lord, until the rain of self-propelled intelligence is seen as drought,
~~until a reign of peace is found,
~~until we have in hand the nearest perfect end for which we fought.
~~God, spare us the undeclared war, the terror of surrender to it: this new wave.
~~Set down the horror of remote war: the minute detail it leaves in its wake.
We praise the wonder of wireless fire,
~~we prize the ash of earth where we see the target die,
~~and we believe this artificial ease will become less dire.
Keep us, Lord, until the rain of self-propelled intelligence is seen as drought,
~~until a reign of peace is found,
~~until we have in hand the nearest perfect end for which we fought.
9/2/11
Psalm 130
They say war can be won;
~~they say in war we stand to gain:
I say the soul has stepped back before training has begun;
~~I say our ground is set back if we march to win.
~~they say in war we stand to gain:
I say the soul has stepped back before training has begun;
~~I say our ground is set back if we march to win.
8/26/11
Psalm 129
In home and travel, love;
~~if plan or puzzle, love;
from need or nourishment, love;
~~when seed or tree, love;
whether stored or spent, love;
~~when the neck of hope is broken, love;
whatever color and clear, love;
~~from temple to ankle, love;
above sold or stolen, love;
~~under one in anger, love;
although wronged, love;
~~even as soon as wronged, love;
my child, blue spruce, white pine, green tree, yellow daffodil,
~~do everything with love;
again, again, again, my love,
~~love.
~~if plan or puzzle, love;
from need or nourishment, love;
~~when seed or tree, love;
whether stored or spent, love;
~~when the neck of hope is broken, love;
whatever color and clear, love;
~~from temple to ankle, love;
above sold or stolen, love;
~~under one in anger, love;
although wronged, love;
~~even as soon as wronged, love;
my child, blue spruce, white pine, green tree, yellow daffodil,
~~do everything with love;
again, again, again, my love,
~~love.
Psalm 128
A good life is a turning, as the sun’s flower, the day’s eye;
~~a strong breath of the soul is a nearing, like a prayer:
in the morning, the hope, the offering;
~~ in the evening, the reflection, the thanksgiving.
~~a strong breath of the soul is a nearing, like a prayer:
in the morning, the hope, the offering;
~~ in the evening, the reflection, the thanksgiving.
8/16/11
Psalm 126
Hush awake, dear ones,
~~hush awake, darlings;
winter wolves and summer swans,
~~new spirit, new soul,
and gulls on the sail:
~~darlings, take your waking places.
Push away shadows, push away veils,
~~push away hollow dreams, their voiceless, unmoved, blind world;
nations and borders,
~~new eyes, new ways,
and undreamed grace of unknown peace:
~~dear ones, wash away your haze and wake a new vision of morning.
~~hush awake, darlings;
winter wolves and summer swans,
~~new spirit, new soul,
and gulls on the sail:
~~darlings, take your waking places.
Push away shadows, push away veils,
~~push away hollow dreams, their voiceless, unmoved, blind world;
nations and borders,
~~new eyes, new ways,
and undreamed grace of unknown peace:
~~dear ones, wash away your haze and wake a new vision of morning.
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