day thirty-one

"your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
   your faithfulness to the skies.
your righteousness is like the highest mountains,
   your justice like the great deep.
   you, Lord, preserve both people and animals.
how priceless is your unfailing love, o God!
   people take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
they feast on the abundance of your house;
   you give them drink from your river of delights.
for with you is the fountain of life;
   in your light we see light." 

~ psalm 36.5-9, new international version

i thank You God for most this amazing day:

for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;

and for everything which is natural 

which is infinite 

which is yes
 

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;

this is the birth day of life 

and love 

and wings

and of the gay great happening 

illimitably earth)

how should tasting 

touching 

hearing 

seeing
breathing any

- lifted from the no of all nothing -

human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
 

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

~ e.e. cummings, 'i thank you God for most this amazing'

* i thank God for dr. larry parsons for introducing me to the wonderful beauty that is eric whitacre.  i miss singing for him and i miss singing such incredible works of art.  (to hear this piece of music, click here.)