Living Psalm 8 – Trinity Sunday

Living Psalms Book

Psalms in the form of words and art, reborn in the specific contexts of our world, privileging the voices of historically marginalized communities and those acting in solidarity with them.

For Trinity Sunday:

Holy Mystery—Creator, Christ, and Spirit—
how wondrous your presence is in all the earth.

You echo through expanding galaxies,
through oceans breathing against the shore,
through every living thing
still learning how to belong to one another.

You speak
through children and prophets,
through those the world calls small,
revealing a wisdom stronger than empire.

When I look at the heavens—
the scattered stars,
the steady moon,
the infinite dance of creation—

I cannot help but ask:
what are we, that you continue to draw near to us?

Dust and breath.
Fragile and finite.
And still, you call us beloved.

You made us to live in relationship—
with the earth,
with each other,
with every creature
that shares this sacred home.

The forests and rivers,
the winged and the wild,
the creatures beneath the sea—
all of us carried together inside the rhythm of your love.

Creator, Christ, and Spirit—
holy communion without end—
how wondrous your presence is
in all the earth.

Living Psalm 8 for Trinity Sunday was written by Sam Houser.

Living Psalms Book is created by UCC Witness & Worship Artists’ Group, a Network of UCC connected artists, activists and ministers bridging the worship and liturgy of the local church with witness and action in the community. Maren Tirabassi, editor

Logo is detail from Living Psalm 80 by Sophia Beardemphl, Redwoods, CA. Recovering from significant bullying, Sophia, age nine, read Psalm 80 and thought of brokenness that needs mending. She drew this broken and mended bowl.