Gratifies

"When you breathe on them they are created," Psalm 104:30.

God's work clothes: light and glory. God stretches out the skies, lays the foundations of his palaces above the skies, establishes solid land, raises mountains out of the deep. God gushes drinking water through the valleys. God's work satisfies the earth: its plants responding to human effort grow food - oil, wine, bread. God provides the right biome for everything, domesticated or wild: birds and trees, mountains and goats, boulders and badgers. God marks the seasons with celestial phenomena: moon phases, sunrises and sunsets, darkness and light. God gratifies his creation: the wild donkey, the young lion, the monstrous sea creature. God opens his hand and they have good things. God takes away breath and they die. God breathes on them and they live. The earth is new again. And again.

When we meet with a brother or sister today, we remember the goodness of this God, creator and sustainer of all that is. And, together, we sing the everlasting glory of the Lord. May our God enjoy his creation!