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psalm eight is pretty great.
if feels true. do you know what I mean?
sometimes poetry can feel true before you’re even sure what it’s saying…

psalm eight is like that for me.
what I read it, the first thing that strikes me is:
beauty.
then, humility.
then, honor.
then I want to read it again…
you try

LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

   You have set your glory
in the heavens.
Through the praise of children and infants

   you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?

 You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

 LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!