"Let me bash out praises to the Lord God of movement":*
Praise for muscular winds,
whipping tree branches,
and flapping birds' wings.
Praise for pitchers' windups
and batters' swings.
Praise for running grandchild feet
and wagging dog's tail.
Praise for spinning car tires
and straining dinghy's sail.
Praise for creaky old legs
and tumbling dryer tubs,
for blinking airplane lights
and the month of May's "darling buds."
Praise for blood in my veins
and still-flowing drains.
Praise for lawn mower blades
and Canada goose parades.
Amen.
(*from "The Way We Live" by Kathleen Jamie)
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