PSALM OF THE FUTURE

PSALM OF THE FUTURE

1. Thunder shows the disapproval of the gods:

yet your approval of Jesus was heard as thunder!

2. Does lightning mean you're angry with me:

is there still power in primitive ideas?

3. The forces around us can be frightening, however caused:

the earth has terrifying wonders to shake us -

4. the earthquake that unsettles a mighty city:

the eruption that rips open the quiet mountain-side.

5. No matter what we do to pollute our planet:

the forces inside it still change our world.

6. If the lava-flow can be home to life in a hundred years:

the earth may yet survive the end of humanity.

7. Your time, our God, is far longer than ours:

your purposes don't depend only on me;

8. why should I think this day's work so vital:

why do we feel that we're at the centre of time?

9. When we're as dead as the dinosaurs, you'll be alive:

if our experiment fails, you could re-create your world.