Page 19 - Your Extravagant Kindness

Psalm 10

Creator, why are you so far away?
Why are you hidden from me during times of adversity?

Prideful weakness gives way to wickedness

And in this way I am ensnared by devices of my own design.

A greedy soul is boastful, desiring much

while despising you, the Eternal One.

When I stand tall and solitary
there is no awareness of our Creator;

by all appearances one can prosper without Godde.

And even as you draw near, your presence a judgment,

an insidious interior voice says with a sneer
“Nothing will ever shake me; no one can harm me.”

The mouth is often full of lies, and threats;

trouble and unkindness lie beneath the tongue.

How easy to wait in in secret places

to ambush and destroy the innocent.

See, the eye keeps watch for the outsider;
how like a crouching beast one can become,
catching the vulnerable, dragging them along in a net.

In our thoughts they collapse and are crushed;
we think they fall because of our strength,

and we whisper to our reproving hearts,
“Godde won't notice, Godde is hidden and won't see.”

But you arise, Eternal One!

You raise your hand, Holy Godde.
Before you I am humbled.