Psalm 1
We walk with Godde,
we discover blessing;
when we give in to our pride, our
doubts
Godde's grace becomes invisible to us.
So let us delight in Godde's way,
let's meditate on Godde's holy Word
day and night, then we will be
trees planted by streams of water
we will yield fruit, and all that we do
will be part of Godde's plan for
blessing others.
When we turn away from Godde,
our actions are ineffective;
Godde will reorder them:
wind scattering cuttings of dry grass.
Our brokenness makes it impossible
to stand before Godde's presence.
We acknowledge our shadow selves,
we are made new,
Godde watches us and sees our return
and transform us – our brokenness
healed.
Once again
we walk with Godde.
The following quote is from an essay, “Reading Biblical Poetry” by Adele Berlin, found in The Jewish Study Bible published by Oxford University Press. “Biblical poetry is a type of elevated discourse, composed of terse lines, and employing a high degree of parallelism and imagery. Other tropes and figures may also be present, most commonly, word and sound repetition and patterning.” I will be sharing additional quotations in future postings, though I do want to observe that an additional poetic device, the “inclusio” is employed in Psalm 1; the poem begins and ends with a similar line, or (in this case)the same line.
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