Reading Psalms

God totally surrounds
The whole of heart
And sweet sister soul.
All are embraced in the song:
Our joys, hopes, anger, vengeance,
Our strike against the goad
Of the load of messy life.
Earthquakes, wars, and salt tears,
God is placing them all here.
The ground base of all.

It shifts.
And our perceptions
Move with it.
Mountains crumble and the Temple shakes.
There’s no escape
From God’s love.
It is trust itself,
Like the palm fronds waving
While the spruce branch shadows
Dance on the wall of this room.
God is present here
In his Word.