Every living thing…

Laura Digan May 26, 2026 0 0

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Psalm 104: 24-35 (NIV-UK)

24 How many are your works, Lord!
    In wisdom you made them all;
    the earth is full of your creatures.
25 There is the sea, vast and spacious,
    teeming with creatures beyond number –
    living things both large and small.
26 There the ships go to and fro,
    and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.

27 All creatures look to you
    to give them their food at the proper time.
28 When you give it to them,
    they gather it up;
when you open your hand,
    they are satisfied with good things.
29 When you hide your face,
    they are terrified;
when you take away their breath,
    they die and return to the dust.
30 When you send your Spirit,
    they are created,
    and you renew the face of the ground.

31 May the glory of the Lord endure for ever;
    may the Lord rejoice in his works –
32 he who looks at the earth, and it trembles,
    who touches the mountains, and they smoke.

33 I will sing to the Lord all my life;
    I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
34 May my meditation be pleasing to him,
    as I rejoice in the Lord.
35 But may sinners vanish from the earth
    and the wicked be no more.

Praise the Lord, my soul.

Praise the Lord.

Every living thing waits upon God. The psalmist sees it everywhere: creatures searching for food, oceans rising and falling, breath entering lungs, seasons turning in quiet obedience. 

Creation itself lives expectantly, held moment by moment in God’s sustaining care. 

Waiting is woven into reality like tides, roots, and rainfall. 

But now the earth groans beneath our restless consumption. Forests burn, waters rise, creatures vanish, and the balance creation depends upon trembles under human hands. 

Climate change reveals what happens when we forget that the world is God's gift rather than our possession. 

But the psalmist reminds us not to despair. The Spirit of God continues to renew the face of the earth. So even in the damaged places, seeds push through cracked ground and life reaches up stubbornly toward renewal. 

Creation waits still — not hopelessly, but expectantly — for humanity to remember how to live gently again.

Prayer:

Lord, renew the earth and renew our hearts, that we may learn again to live as caretakers of Your creation.

Where the world is wounded, plant hope within us strong enough to heal, protect, and restore.

Amen