#Living Psalm 1_Tirabassi 
(for these days with dramatic weather changes, violence of flood and fire and storm, the psalm becomes a prayer for the care of creation.)
 
Happy are those who do not ravage fossil fuels,
ignore the warming of oceans, 
or scoff at the worth of wild public lands,

but their delight is in care for creation, 
and on climate change 
they meditate day and night.

The psalmist so many years ago
likened us to trees 
planted by streams of fresh water, 
which yield fruit in their season, 
and unfurl leaves that do not wither. 

Those who deny global warming
choosing greed for immediate profits 
over the self-sacrifice of changing ways
turn life into chaff 
easily blown away by the wind.

Therefore, they will stand confused, asking --
Do you remember ...trees? 
Where is there one stream of living water?
Why is there no fruit for my mouth,
and no leaf to shade my head?

God applauds the resistance 
of those who fight for the earth,
but cannot keep the others
from their self-determination to perish.