A NEW PSALM
On this day and every day
Let us give praise to our God-
Why else did Love create us?
Why else are we waiting in Jerusalem?
Israelites of the New Covenant
Awake!
Love approaches, asking,
"Are you my Beloved?"
See! The heavens are glimpsed,
In the thin spaces
Intersecting heaven and earth
By the humble of heart.
Given a new voice,
Turning to one another,
Let us joyfully proclaim
The Good News!
For this brother of ours,
Is the velvet hammer of
Compassion and mercy,
Vanquishing death’s black hole.
We are given a new voice,
By the one
Who has proved faithful to us
Through death.
To the holy one of Israel,
Who brings to us
The fire of dimensionless Pentecost-
In thanksgiving. Amen
—Garth Stanton, "Journeying to Jerusalem: From Epiphany to Easter, 2007" (private printing)
