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Psalm 1

We walk with our Creator,
and discover blessing;
when we give in to our pride, our doubts,
Godde's grace becomes invisible to us.

So, let’s delight in the Creator's way,
let's meditate on Godde's Holy Word

day and night, and we will be
trees planted by streams of water;
we will yield fruit, and all that we do
will be part of Creator's plan for blessing others.

When we turn away from Godde,
our actions are ineffective,

but the Creator will reorder them:
wind scattering cuttings of dry grass.

Our brokenness makes it painful

to stand before Godde's presence;
we acknowledge our shadowed selves,
we are made new;

Godde watches us,
oversees our return;
our brokenness healed
as once again

1
we walk with our Creator.

1See “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.” An
additional poetic device, the “inclusio” is employed in Psalm 1; the poem begins and ends with a similar, or (in this case)
the same, line.