# Living Psalm 121 for those in the hospital_Tirabassi

We lift up our eyes to hospitals
for the help that is … wisdom,
diagnosis, skill, compassionate care,
and under these gifts of earth
and the tenderness of hands and hearts
is the help that is God.

God holds you in the inmost parts,
in the heart and tumor,
the replacement of a kidney or knee,
the care of a fragile pregnancy,
or sudden catastrophe
of accident, fire, or gunshot wound,
under scalpel, in infusion, 
with the suture of the Spirit.

God does not slumber. 
God wakes when you wake to worry,
and God wakes, watching,
when in weariness and medication
you submerge.

In a net of prayers, you are kept
in the light of healing
from the sun’s rising on a tray 
brought in with smile and laughter
to a nurse who strokes tears
in the moonlight's shining.

And unceasing prayers also keep 
the precious ones of your life,
as they come in to visit 
and go out to learn and plan and breathe,
in these so fragile days,

and all the holy time surrounding 
your now and your always.