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Psalms 8
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God, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name.
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Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout the songs That drown out enemy talk, and silence atheist babble.
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I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings.
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Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?
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Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light.
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You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge,
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Made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild,
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Birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps.
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God, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world.
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