Doesn’t it sometimes feel like the world is falling apart? The morning news brings reports of murders, bombings, warfare, financial trouble and more. Our own lives experience illness – our own and that of others, fractures in relationships, difficulties at work. The list goes on and on.
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This marvelous prayer honors God for creating the cosmos and everything, human and animal, that lives in it. He has done so wisely, creating an order that not only brings life into existence, but provides for our every need.
The opening of the psalm uses Near Eastern metaphors to describe God’s creative acts.
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