Episode 135: Psalm 104

Today's meditation is on Psalm 104

I bless you, O Lord my God, with everything I am. Your greatness takes my breath away. And I am overwhelmed by your majesty, beauty and splendor. You are robed with honor and with majesty and light. You stretched out the starry skies like a tapestry, and hollowed out the surface of the earth to form the seas. You build your balconies with light beams. The clouds are your chariots. You fly on the wings of the wind. The angels are your messengers—your servants of fire.

You spoke and the earth was formed, and you sustain all things by the word of your power. You clothed the earth with floods of waters covering up the mountains. Then you spoke, and at the sound of your shout the water collected into its vast ocean beds, and mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed. And then you set a boundary for the seas so that they would never again cover the earth.

You sent springs cascading through the valleys, flowing freely between the mountains and hills. You provide water for every living thing, animals and humans are able to quench their thirst because of you. The birds nest beside the streams and sing among the branches of the trees. 

You send rain upon the mountains and bring forth the earth's harvest to feed the hungry. The tender grass grows up at your command to feed the cattle, and there are fruit trees, vegetables, and grain for me to eat, and olive oil as a lotion for my skin. You give me my daily bread to sustain life and give me strength. You planted the cedars of Lebanon. They are tall and flourishing. There the birds make their nests, the storks in the firs. High in the mountains are pastures for the wild goats, and rock badgers burrow in among the rocks and find protection there.

You made the moon to mark the months and the sun to measure the days. You send the night and darkness, when all the forest folk come out. Then the young lions roar for their food, but they are dependent on you, O Lord. You feed them all. At dawn they slink back into their dens to rest, and people go off to work until the evening shadows fall again. O Lord, what an amazing variety you have created. With wisdom you have made it all. The earth is full of your riches.

Before me lies the mighty ocean, vast and deep and wide. It teems with life of every kind, both great and small. Trading ships glide through the high seas, and massive whales play among the waves.  Every one of these depends on you to give them daily food. You supply it, and they gather it. You open wide your hand to feed them, and they are satisfied with all your bountiful provision.

You send your Spirit, and new life is born to replenish all the living of the earth. I praise you, God, your glorious splendor endures forever. How you must rejoice in all your work! The earth trembles at your glance; the mountains burst into flame at your touch.

I will sing to you, Lord as long as I live. I will praise you, my God to my last breath. May my words and the meditations of my heart please you, for you are the source of all my joy. 

Until next time, be blessed and be a blessing.

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