I wrote this poem as a call to worship when our church Writers' Group led Sunday service last year. The service theme was "All that is Worthy of Praise."
A Call to Worship: All that is Worthy of Praise
All that is worthy of praise,
direct your voices to we
who hardly
acknowledge the day.
Show us your perfect, pearly feline claw,
your dark dog lashes,
your figure in the fun-house mirror
telling us always to laugh.
Remind us of gardening hands,
the way waves eat a shoreline,
how a pair of pants fresh from the dryer
feels on a winter’s day.
Tell us when we spend more time searching
for the crack in the cup than we do making
the tea, when we revel in our own ruin, feasting
our minds on famished souls, rendering
ourselves only empty.
All that is worthy of praise,
when the rain pools on the pavement,
when lightening sears the sky,
and when thunder knocks at our very hearts,
give us wisdom to listen:
“I am here! Come now. Worship.”
Katherine M. Gotthardt
Nov. 2009
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2 comments:
I really like this poem, Katherine. It's inspiring, visual, and compelling. I wish more people wrote poems about the experience of worship itself.
Glad you like it! I can't take credit for the theme. We have an amazing music director and worship committee that comes up with these things. The rest of us just follow their lead.
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