Psalms

These past 5 weeks my church has been going through some Psalms. Each week our pastor has given us assignments to respond with a psalm of our own mimicking the style of the one covered on Sunday and then post it on FB (if we want to) by Friday. It has been such a neat activity. Last week was Psalm 147. In the freshness of Vitri's passing away, this was mine:

Praise the LORD

who sets out the times and seasons––

for birth and death;

for weeping and laughing,

mourning and dancing,

silence and speaking.

Praise the LORD

who breathed HIS breath in us

and gave us LIFE;

who determines

the number of breaths we have in us;

who knows the number of our days

and the dust from which we came

and will return.

Praise your God, Sarahjoy,

the Great Three, yet One,

seamlessly dancing.

We're assembled in His likeness

and must have companions.

Rejoice in His supplying

of friends.

Praise the LORD

and sing a new song to the King

whose ways are not our own;

whose Kingdom belongs to

the poor in spirit;

to meek and to children;

those persecuted for righeousness;

those who lay down their life;

and die to self; and

those certain of things unseen.

Exalt the King

whose life revolved around

uneducated fishermen

unpopular and unfair tax collectors

untouchable sick

stonable prostitutes

the hopeless dead and

those with untamable, unclean spirits.

Praise the LORD all you people--

who turns sorrow into joy

and mourning to dancing

who uses trials to bring perseverance

and for perseverance gives the crown of life!

Praise the LORD.