A Song Of November

PSALM 65

A Song of David

To You belongs silence,

the submissive wonder of reverence

which burst forth into praise and praise is due

and fitting to You, O God, in Zion;

and to You shall the vow be performed.

Autumn Cardinals

Sam Timm

O You Who hear prayer, to You shall all flesh come.

Iniquities and much varied guilt prevail against me;

yet as for our transgressions, 
You forgive and purge them away

make atonement for them and cover them out of Your sight!

Blessed , happy, fortunate, to be envied, are they whom You

choose and cause to come near, that they may dwell in Your courts!

We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Your holy temple.

By fearful and glorious things that terrify the wicked but make the

godly sing praises do You answer us in righteousness, rightness and

justice, O God of our salvation. You Who are the confidence and hope

of all the ends of the earth and of those far off on the seas;

Who by Your might have founded the mountains, being girded with power.

Roaring Sea

(Inspired by the words of Luke 21:25)

Katherine Luther

Who still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, 

and the tumult of the peoples.

So that those who dwell in earth's farthest parts are afraid of nature's

signs of Your presence. You make the places where morning

 and evening have birth to shout for joy.

You visit the earth and saturate it with water; You greatly enrich it;

the river of God is full of water; You provide them with grain when

You have so prepared the earth.

You water the field's furrows abundantly, You settle the ridges of it;

You make the soil soft with showers, blessing the sprouting of its vegetation.

You crown the year with Your bounty and goodness, and the tracks of

Your chariot wheels drip with fatness.

The luxuriant pastures in the uncultivated country drip with moisture,

and the hills gird themselves with joy.

The meadows are clothed with flocks, the valleys also are covered

with grain; they shout for joy and sing together.

Autumn Walk

Barbara Jeffords