Meditation on Psalm 10 for the Here and Now

Meditation on Psalm 10 for the Here and Now

I can hear the crying,
feel the tears dripping,
down his and her cheeks.

I can hear the scream,
feel the pain of loneliness,
understand anguish…
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I can, too, dear God,
but I can’t stop it.
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Neither can I, now…
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Why, God, tell me why?
Do orphans remain alone,
do the widows mourn?

No, You tell me, why?
I have a contract,
a partnership, made

with humanity;
I have honored it.
Has humanity?

It has broken it
over and over again.
Ask humanity,

All your questions.
Bring any answers to Me,
I always listen…

No one has answered,
Nor have many even listened.
I turn to You, God.

My child, I hear you
I was, am and will be Here.
Will humanity?

That depends on You.
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No my child, that depends on you
on each of you.

I answer prayers
but someone must pray for them,
widow and orphan.

For that, they must hear,
feel the pain of loneliness,
understand the anguish.

Child, because I hear
one who prays and one who acts,
I must act when one

Should but pray, act, and
if humanity does not
then I do alone;

If not here and now
than there and then, yet, always,
I can hear the cry;

I can hear the scream;
feel the pain of loneliness,
understand anguish.

My child, I hear you…
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A Meditation of Comfort for the 15 of Av
(Inspired by Psalm 14)

O Jerusalem,
I look to you for comfort,
joy that comes from peace,

Justice that combines
with mercy to bring truth
by which all can live.

it is to You, I
turn, Lord, to open your gates
of understanding,

Of human frailty.
As You have so often done
before and must do

Again, if we are
to survive, not but within
but also without.

We must save ourselves
from ourselves and our egos
from disunity.

To know together,
we are but one, united,
in common purpose

Towards redemption,
where all can be achieved
For our common goal;

And, only, if done,
for the One, as one people,
who are synchronized.