THOU ART FAITHFUL TO THE CHILDREN OF MEN

While working on instructions for my funeral to be kept on file in my parish's office, I chose to have Psalm 90 to be one of the Scripture readings.  Psalm 90 has long been important to me since my sophomore year in college.  Nonetheless, I have always been unsatisfied with the last verse:  "Give us success in all we do".  So I decided to take a hand in writing my own paraphrase of the Psalm.  (However horrible that may sound.)  In the end, I may just retain Psalm 90 in the original and have this as a separate, personal "statement. 

The quote below is a rough rendering of what I came up with.  Mind…it is still a work in progress.  I would appreciate any and all suggestions in how to improve it.  After I wrote my first draft, I thought it was worthy of a modern day Shakespeare.  Since then, the pride of authorship has worn off and my own estimation of its quality has fallen several hundred notches.  Perhaps the average high school freshman could effortlessly do better.  I somewhat suspect so.

 

So anyway, here t'is.  Look it over.  Try not to lose your lunch.  And send suggestions by way of the comment box.  

 

Thanks.

 

Crabby Apple Mick Lee 

Thou art faithful to the children of men

And provide each according to their season

Thou feedst the creatures of the earth

And art mindful of the least of these

 

With the hosts of Heaven, may we praise Thy name

Let us awake in the morning filled with Thy sweetness

And may our future be as happy as our past was sad

The days we dwelt among the dead and shared our bread with ghosts 

Let Thy servants behold the work of Thine Hands

And in the world to come rejoice among the mountains of Heaven

All the we craft withers and is lost to the winds of the earth

But Thy goodness and mercy shall stand--now and forever of days