(Every year the members of our church spend some time writing and sharing “Living Psalms” which are original outpourings of our hearts to God. This month's “Super Moon” got me thinking about the living psalm I wrote a year or so back...)

Psalm of Praise for Creation

Oh, Lord, creator of all things, we give You praise and glory,

for all that is seen and unseen in the world You have made around us.

You have given us Your most excellent in all that You have created,

in the things that delight us and in the things that awe us,

in the things we puzzle over and wonder at.

You have allowed us to observe Your works and to name them,

to play at understanding and describing them.

Once the psalmists called us to praise Your sun and moon and shining stars.

We now add to their praise our own for Your works then unseen,

for the moons and rings of planets, nebulae, myriads of galaxies,

star clusters and interstellar clouds.

The highest heavens have revealed wonders, always known to You,

but new to our minds, of black holes and quasars; of the sound of background radiation,

a remnant left from the moment You spoke the universe into being,

the force of Your creation ever continuing outward into the heavens.

In the beginning, You laid the foundations of the earth,

that which we see and stand on and live in.

We praise You for the building blocks You have chosen for Your foundations,

for atoms and electrons, quarks and leptons, neutrinos and muons,

all those pieces we pretend to see and strive to understand

and boldly label with names of our own choosing,

but born of Your words spoken into the void on the days of creation.

We praise you because we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Your works are wonderful, we know that full well, right down to each cell,

our DNA, mitochondria, each part perfect, each piece formed by Your desire for us.

When sickness and injury cause us to doubt Your perfection,

we look to the hope of the perfect body You have prepared for each of us,

waiting for us in Your holy presence, waiting only for the time You call us from

this present corner of Your creation.

When man in his finiteness, doubts You, fails to see You,

You call to him with Your wondrous works of creation.

When the physicist questions that “this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions...can (it) merely be a stage...that... is too big for the drama”*,

Your Word, Lord, then, answers him with Your truth.

And we praise and give You glory, Lord, for that truth, that Your drama has more acts, more scenes of Your infinite love and majesty than we are able to imagine.

This play of salvation and redemption is bigger and longer

and more spectacular than we can conceive.

And the stage You have created is perfect in size.

*It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil – which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama. – Richard Feynman, physicist

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

- Romans 1:20