#Living Psalms 23_Tirabassi for April 21 due April 8 

Forever is in Our Hands

God makes us shepherds and gardeners,
so none of God’s relations –
creatures, growing things, land, water,  
wind, sky – need be in want.

God gives us lying down places
of green pasture, rainforest, delta, desert,
high mountain, deep canyon,
and paths by arroyo, deep river,
waterfall, ocean shore,
and these restore our souls.

Creator leads us to care,
not from duty, but from love.

Though we pass chemically poisoned fields, 
over-fished seas and the terrible tears 
of the valley of extinction,
when we join the weeping, 
we no longer fear so deeply.

God sets up one global table –
in spite of the turned-over-ones
of corporate influence, 
money, political power.
God anoints us with community,
teaches us overflowing wells.

Surely we follow with committed people 
people of goodness and mercy,
from Chico Mendes to Greta Thunberg,
and so many, so many more.

Where we dwell now is God’s house. 
Forever is in our hands.