Tuesday, September 1, 2009

A Psalm

Let my cluttered, muddled mind praise YHWH!
Let my nearly constant confusion praise YHWH!
Let my useless daydreaming praise YHWH!
Let my social anxiety praise YHWH!
Let my inability to make conversation praise YHWH!
Let my crippling sense of futility praise YHWH!
Let my ruined childhood praise YHWH!
Let my neglectful father praise YHWH!
Let my haunting fear of imitating him praise YHWH!
Let my fear of rejection praise YHWH!
Let my fear of women praise YHWH!
Let my burning lust praise YHWH!
Let my idolatrous pantheon of pretty girls praise YHWH!
Let my shitty job praise YHWH!
Let my complete inability to wisely manage my time praise YHWH!
Let my broken family praise YHWH!
Let my misanthropy praise YHWH!
Let my total lack of ambition praise YHWH!
Let my chronic despair praise YHWH!
Let my frequent sense of meaninglessness praise YHWH!

Let all my many and various inadequacies praise YHWH!

Rejoice!
Rejoice!
Rejoice!

The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength!

The full have hired themselves out for food, but those who were hungry are filled!

There is hope for a tree cut down, that it will sprout again, and its shoots will not cease!

Let everything that has breath praise YHWH!

Praise YHWH!

(Psalms 148, 149, 150; 1 Samuel 2; Job 14: 7-9; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10)