If you are new to this blog, on Friday or Saturday I will post something from my Vault, or one of my other Writing Projects. The Psalms Project is my attempt to take the spirit of the Psalms and re-apply them and write new ones for today. I am NOT trying to replace the amazing Psalms already in the Bible! I am in no way trying to paraphrase or restate each Psalm, but I do pay homage to them and other Bible passages, of course. While often meant as songs in the Hebrew Scriptures, mine are more like meditative essays. I invite you to play along, see what you might identify with or relate to in these. So, here is another Psalm for a Modern Day.
ALONE?
Quietness. No one around, save my own mind. It feels empty. A void—that should be filled. A void that IS. People can fill it some of the time—but not all of the time.
Selah.
But you are a God of empty spaces! You are a God of lonely places. A long list of “friends” in the digital world may give an illusion of love, but is gone like a morning mist. Oh Lord, only you can be a True Friend. Even wives and husbands cannot be All.
You are all, in All, and in the little things we see, if we only have eye to see.
Open my eyes! Open me to see that you are here—always here, whether the room is crowded, or the hour is late, and the room is empty.
Then I am sad, for I forgot the Other World, the true one, where we came from, and where we shall return. That world is here and NOW. Only believe, and breathe in His Presence.
The quiet is not quiet, nor the void, a void. The space that is nothing is filled with EVERYTHING.
God IS here. In me. In you.
Amen.
-Eric, the Wordsmith
PB22-P6
(The Theory of the Realms-Part 2 drops next week…)