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Variation on Psalm 1
Mysterious are your ways, oh God; forceful is your hand; fear binds us to lies yet you craft our lives to deliver truth, crush deception, lighten our load free our souls to proclaim your steadfast love render us submissive to what's right in your sight or be subjected to human oversight; we submit to your tender-as-possible guidance, oh God, and then sense your Presence as medicine for doubt, confirmation as salve for our worries, peace in you as balm for agitation. you show your Wisdom to move us closer throughout our days' in our goings and comings, our entrances, and our exits, all crafted with care. Forceful is your hand; Mysterious are your ways, oh God. |
Variation on Psalm 6
My Creator, have mercy through the pains of inherited ways; aches, troubles held in the body, old ideas held in the mind; "more is revealed" as Kimmy says, "was blind! Now I see" John Newton cried when God awakened him to the horror of his enterprise; Pains for me arthritis in knees... and the need, the need to people please or have NO self esteem am NOT the salt, preserving flavor am NOT the light guiding others along the way. Heal God, for bones-soul chaff! why take so long? deliver this life pushed up 'gainst steel-wall womb skin torn 'gainst cold metal, let move into moist birth passage into light as in the beginning to come out wailing... testing to hear voice manifest... testing to be loved while a bloody mess deliver for the the sake of your reputation, after all, you need each story that speaks of your glory, the legitimacy of living in and for you; we can't praise from a grave or stuck in a steel womb; the light you ignite is diminishing, grows weak each hour... hear us, hear the wail, know the tears, pleas, prayers; please drive demons away, humbled to have once more believed they could overpower your Love. |
Psalm 23?
Are you their shepherd? Are you taking care of their needs? Are you giving them time to plop down in a field or on the beach in peace? leading to where you refresh, restore their soul? How are you leading the right way? Show yourself! They are walking in the shadow of death, doubting your love, your power, afraid more ill may come, not sure you are with them, almost sure you are not, disheartened by the trials, the new set backs. Where is the table lovingly set in the presence of all their internal questions, doubts, fears? the bounty meant to reassure them? Where is the oil for the anointing of their head? How is goodness and mercy with them? how will they dwell in your house forever? Why God, why have you forsaken? Why are you so far from saving? They cry out at night and by day and you are silent. Their parents trusted in you and you showed up, when they cried out, you rescued them but now, where are you for the children? |
Psalm 29 Variation
Voice hovers over the waters, booms, blossoms; trees break, deserts jump like calves, stars scatter like water from wet, wild cubs. Voice flashes forth flames of fire, shakes wilderness, makes deer birth strips forest bare; In the beginning was the Voice, with God, and it was God, Life that shines in the darkness; all was made through it; not to be overcome. May the Voice give strength to its people! May the Voice give peace to its people! |
Variation on Psalm 46
God is my safe inner outer space internal external eternal Source therefore I will NOT FEAR though waters rise, cancer's in late stage though innocents suffer encaged though dictators dance or insanely rage a river’s streams make glad God's City of Angels God is in her; she shall not be moved; God will greet her as morning dawns; nations rage, kingdoms totter God utters voice Earth melts, The LORD of ALL is with and in us; The GOD of Hagar hears our cry. Come! see the works of the Most High! the demolition with intent to cease all fighting anything, anyone; our Creator breaks the ego, shatters the pride, shuts down self-drive and cries, "Be still and know that I AM. I will be exalted on the Earth. I will be revealed as ETERNAL LOVE." The LORD of ALL is our fortress, our sky; The GOD of Hagar hears our children's cry. |
Psalm 100
Sing your heart out! Bang your joy on drums! Play that trumpet, keyboard, flute! We fold into God that way! We are made by the One, belong to our Maker; we are the notes of "I Am's" music so empty out, harmonize, chant, pray; open, dissolve the separation, clear away the wreckage! Don't hold back! Give thanks and bless the Lord with songs for God is Good, endures forever, is unchanging. We all, all that lives, exist in with each other and return to our original image our original nature, name, energy, our root. Sing! Play the drums Let music resonate to re-member that root. Praise the Lord! |