Meditation I: After a time of brief despair

Calm you nervous anxious heart, for the Lord is God.

The Lord is God, oh my soul, bless his name,

For the Lord is sovereign above all else

And Good

Why do you tremble at the Nations, Oh, people of God?

And Curse the traditions of your age

Isn’t your God greater than all?

Hasn’t he clothed you skins with righteousness

And blessed your youth?

Is he not the God of the Covenant?

Is not Christ the Lamb?

The problems of your mind

Isn’t he Greater?

Remember not the lie of your strength but the Promise of God’s

Even in the depths of your despair

Even in the loop of your frustration

The madness of heart

The madness of mind

The splitting of soul

Despair

Toil

God is grander, more than all that and

God is a generous God

Not like the trickster Gods of the Germans

Not like the callous God of the Greeks

Not like the emasculated God of the Americans.

God is the God of the Gospel

Rejoice