7 - A Song for Celebration

My health has been so stable recently that a bad case of bronchitis surprised me last week. Still a bit under the weather, I send you an old psalm. It is one of the first I wrote, as you can tell from the number, from the time when the melodies were beginning to stir in my head and send my fingers to the computer keyboard

Seven

A Song for Celebration

Join the song of the Eternal.
Sing the melody of the One Who created sound,
Who gave timbre to the stars
And tongue to the earth,
Whose chant pulses across the hills
To echo in the hearts of all who long for song.

Join the dance of the Eternal.
Slide feet together, bend and bow;
Honor the One Who created dance,
Who made us to move rhythmically,
To sway with the earth’s heartbeat
And skip beneath moonlight,
Limbs and brain in meter.

Join the tale of the Eternal.
Hear the story of the One Who created speech,
Who shaded meanings and uttered rhymes,
Who gave us tales to tell by candlelight and sunshine,
To thrill and to bind and to teach,
That we might know our own stories.