Steve Shoemaker’s poetry reminded Views from the Edge readers that there is “A Song for Each Kind of Day” [April 12, 2012].
On an ordinary day, today’s assigned reading from The Book of Common Prayer would have sent me scurrying for something brighter. But today is darkened by the cruelty of the announced intention to end legal protection of the ‘Dreamers’.
I hear in the psalmist’s voice the cries of the Dreamers.
tThose who seek after my life lay snares for me;
those who strive to hurt me speak of my ruin
and plot treachery all the day long. [Ps. 38:12]
Those who are my enemies without cause are mighty,
and many in number are those who hate me. [Ps. 38:19]
There is a song for each kind of day.
“O Lord, you know all my desires,
and my sighing is no hidden from you.” [Ps. 38:9]
“Make haste to help me,
O God of my salvation.” [Ps. 38:22]
- Gordon C. Stewart, Chaska, MN, September 6, 2017.
Views from the Edge 
So many disasters. DACA (Trump), Harvey on the Gulf Coast, Irma in the Caribbean and threatening the East Coast, massive wildfires in the West. And that is only here. Terrible things happening around the world. We must remember “Our help is in the name of the Lord…He will not suffer thy foot to be moved….” Kyrie eleison.
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Carolyn, you have to wonder what it will take to wake up the climate change-deniers and the government haters to taste, touch, hear, see, and smell their way forward to the hidden, holy heart of things.
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It’s hard for me to believe that we could be stupid enough to eject these people from the country. I want to think we are better than that.
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Apparently we are, Marilyn. I’m just not sure who the WE is anymore.
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