Here’s
a beautiful contemporary paraphrase of Psalm 8 from James Taylor’s wonderful
collection, Everyday Psalms. (See below for link.)
Scripture Litany: Psalm 8
My
God, my God,
how
wonderful you are!
There
is nothing like you in the whole earth.
I
look up to the skies, and I see you there;
Babies
and infants open their mouths,
and
I hear them cry your name.
Compared
to you, our weapons, our bombs,
our
power to destroy,
dwindle
into insignificance.
On
a starry night, with your glory splashed across the skies,
I
gaze into your infinite universe, and I wonder:
Who
am I?
Why
do I matter?
Why
do you care about mere mortals?
We
humans are less than specks of dust in your universe.
We
have existed less than a second in the great clock of creation.
Yet
you choose us as your partners.
You
share the secrets of the universe with us;
you
give us a special place in your household;
you
trust us to look after the earth, on your behalf—
not
just the sheep and oxen,
but
also the wolves that prey on our domestic animals;
the
birds, the plants, and even creatures we have never seen
in
the depths of the sea.
My
God, my God! How amazing you are.
~
written by James Taylor, in Everyday
Psalms (Wood Lake Books, 1994) http://www.woodlakebooks.com/search/results/inventory/All-Products/Biblical-Studies/Everyday-Psalms.
