Psalm 104:24-30
What a wildly wonderful world, God!
You made it all, with wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations.
Oh, look, the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon.
Ships plow the waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them.
All creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time.
You come, and they gather around;
You open your hand and they eat from it.
If you turned your back, they’d die in a minute.
Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud;
Send out your Spirit and they spring to life, the whole countryside in bloom and blossom.
HOLY SPIRIT
Fragile is all I can think about sometimes,
How we live in a cardboard universe that reads, this end up.
We spend our days in search of safety,
Our nights in quest of rest.
But our world turns upside down anyway.
We drop like a lead balloon.
Breathless, not with wonder
But with worry, broken.
Turn our world the right side up, HOLY SPIRIT.
Deserts into green fields
Green fields into forests
Wrong into right
War into peace
Curse into blessing
Fill this cardboard universe with your presence.
Amen