A wet Wednesday

Yesterday a heavy rain came in the late afternoon, after a very sunny afternoon. The flat campus where we live flooded - again! Our team leader said this week, "There's a small river nearby where the run off seems to go!" referring to the Amazon!
When we finally got safely to church at Icui, driving through rain in poor visibility, I led in the reading of Ps. 8 and one of the songs we sang was "How Great Thou Art" (only in Portuguese, of course).

A psalm of David... Psalm 8

1 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
above the heavens.

2 From the lips of children and infants
you have ordained praise
because of your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.

3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,

4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?

5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet:

7 all flocks and herds,
and the beasts of the field,

8 the birds of the air,
and the fish of the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

9 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

How great is our Creator and how marvelous are His works! This reminded me of a poem I wrote years ago, while meditating at the side of the river sea, on the island of Mosqueiro:

Lord,

I marvel at

the immensity,

the power

and the vengeance

of the sea,

at the obscurity,

the weakness

and insignificance

of me! (Gladys Noble, 1976)