So here is part 3 of my series of posts based on last Sunday's Harvest Celebration of Creation and Creativity, inspired by Genesis 1. The main part of this blog, a dramatised paraphrase of Psalm 8, I have posted a number of times before in different forms... and I was going to skip it, until on Tuesday a colleague used Psalm 8 and the Casting Crowns below as part of the devotions at a training day I was at. On Sunday we also used a version of the same song, but sung by the wonderful Melanie Johnston. Great minds think alike... or something like that...
And God said, "Let
there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." So
God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water
above it. And it was so. God called the expanse "sky." And there was
evening, and there was morning--the second day.
Genesis 1:
6-8
Dramatised Reading: Psalm 8
BOTH: O LORD ,
our God, your name is honoured in all that you have made!
Voice 1: Beyond the boundless reaches of
space
Voice 2: Higher than
the heavens where the angels offer you their symphony of worship;
Voice 1: While here
on earth even nursing infants gurgle in adoration
Voice 2: Toddlers
shout songs of praise
Voice 1: Silencing
the cynical sneering of the enemy
Voice 2: Drowning
out the godless chatter of the age.
Voice 1: When I stare into the
heavens above,
I
see your fingerprints all over the sky…
Voice 2: I see jewellery of
the finest of workmanship
with
the moon mounted in an almost infinite setting of stars…
Voice 1: And I feel
so small…
Voice 2: I sense the
expanse between heaven and earth,
Voice 1: Creator and
creature…
Voice 2: And I
wonder why you bother with me?
Voice 1: Why you
would look once, never mind twice, in my direction?
Voice 2: Yet I am
always on your mind
Voice 1: You care
for me night and day…
Voice 2: You have
made me little less than a god…
Voice 1: The crown
of all creation,
Voice 2: A jewel
that brings joy to your heart.
Voice 1: You charged
me with looking after your handiwork
Voice 2: You laid
everything at my feet:
Voice 1: All
creatures great and small;
Voice 2: domesticated
and wild
Voice 1: The
flocking birds, and shoaling fish
Voice 2: and the
whales whose songs of praise circle the seven seas.
BOTH: O LORD ,
our God, your name is honoured in all that you have made!
ps. for all fact checkers, forgive the wrong attribution at the end of this video, the Psalm cited is It's actually Psalm 143:5, not 145: 4
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