Birth beckons celebration; whether babe, a bloom, a pup
New day that spills o’er yonder hills from Mercy’s
brimming cup
Hope, like a hearty handshake, refreshes happiness
As beauty, God’s stayed signature anoints life’s ugliness
Where we, a host of beggars by the grace of Holy God
Are treated, free of charge to awesome art of sky and sod
Over the ash of ages and the bones of silenced cries
Birth frees from fettered cages the proof of God’s kind
replies
Where death spills blood and stills the pulse (sometimes ‘neath
human hands)
But breath that ushers birth only Life’s Bestower
commands
For once life has departed no one can its voice revive
And only birth can keep the earth rejoicing and alive
Birth beckons celebration; like a poem penned by He
The author of salvation, to His beloved family
Where, midst the groaning turmoil beneath man, death
would be chief
But hark; a puppy barks, a baby cries, dawn breaks, buds
leaf
We lift our heads, a melody woos above brutal wars
And from Time’s teardrop riddled trench the human spirit
soars
© Janet Martin
For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.
in your light we see light.
Psalm 36:9
The whole glorious psalm here,
as fitting for these days
as in days of old!
I have a message from God in my heart
concerning the sinfulness of the wicked:[b]
There is no fear of God
before their eyes.
2 In their own eyes they flatter themselves
too much to detect or hate their sin.
3 The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful;
they fail to act wisely or do good.
4 Even on their beds they plot evil;
they commit themselves to a sinful course
and do not reject what is wrong.
too much to detect or hate their sin.
3 The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful;
they fail to act wisely or do good.
4 Even on their beds they plot evil;
they commit themselves to a sinful course
and do not reject what is wrong.
5 Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.
7 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
8 They feast on the abundance of your house;
you give them drink from your river of delights.
9 For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.
your faithfulness to the skies.
6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
your justice like the great deep.
You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.
7 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
8 They feast on the abundance of your house;
you give them drink from your river of delights.
9 For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.
10 Continue your love to those who know you,
your righteousness to the upright in heart.
11 May the foot of the proud not come against me,
nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12 See how the evildoers lie fallen—
thrown down, not able to rise!
your righteousness to the upright in heart.
11 May the foot of the proud not come against me,
nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12 See how the evildoers lie fallen—
thrown down, not able to rise!
