#Living Psalm 114_Thompson, September 17, 16th Sunday after Pentecost, (Due September 4) 

Psalm 114
God’s Wonders Destroyed
Written by Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia A. Thompson

The sea waters rise, the oceans overflow their banks
the people living near the waters flee their homes,

ice sheets and glaciers melting, water invading the land,
the seas looked back, too late, they cannot turn around.

The beauty of the mountains are stripped away
trees harvested as the towering height of soil is reduced

land mined for valuable natural resources
to fuel capitalism and greed

the mountains no longer skip
in the rubble, no grass is left for the animals to feed.

The earth trembles as disasters persist
deforestation creating landslides

dryness appearing where rivers once flowed
mountains disappear from their place in the sky.

Where is God present in and around us
when we cease to care about the life of all God created?