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.

Living Psalm 99: Festival of Transfiguration C

1Creator is set in the majesty of rivers, trees, oceans, and creatures.  
Let the people honor and praise.
The earth groans and surges with the weeping wounds 
of extraction, deforestation, and extinction at the hands of men.  
Creator weeps and wails with the angels and ancestors!
2Creator is all life giving and wise.  
Love Creator; honor creation.
3Let the people awaken to your beauty and truth.  
Sacred is the he/she/they.
4Wisdom’s strength, lover of justice, you reveal to us what is possible 
and bid us to make that justice and beauty in the earth with you.
5Sing out loud because creation overflows in you; 
worship under the grandeur of trees, 
in the mercy of rivers, 
at the awe of canyons.  
Sacred is the he/she/they!
6 The water protectors hear the voice of Creator, 
the songs of the ancestors and see visions of their children’s children, 
calling on Creator’s faithfulness.

7 The Sacred spoke to the people who listened, 
8 Of life, forgiveness and justice.
9 Sing to honor and praise the Sacred, 
in the creation where you are.

Living Psalm 99: Festival of Transfiguration C, was written by the Rev.  Tracy Howe Wispelwey, Minister of Congregational and Community Engagement, United Church of Christ

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.  

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.

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