Forgotten Ground Regained

Like a Tree Standing Tall

(After Psalm 1)
I wrote this poem as part of a sequence of alliterative takes on some of the individual Psalms (Psalms 1-8) that I wrote between 1997 and 2000.
O Lord, may we live like a tree standing tall over waters that wash us, refresh us and feed us. May Your grace keep us green with delight in Your law through famine, through fear, past danger, past drought. Uphold us, Lord, for You are our root.Prosper us, bless us, grant us fruit.
Then do not sit in the scoffer's seat or stand at the side of men who mock the law of God and leave what is good to walk by the words of wicked men. As light as chaff they blow away. They have no root and cannot stay.
By day and by night may we draw near to Thee, and meditate, mark every word of Thy will. O God we have gathered, assembled to sing in Thy presence, to praise Three, and crown Thee, our King!
The righteous will rise, their way I will watch to pasture, protect them, to save them from sin. But the way of the wicked will perish in pain when truth like a howling hurricane tears loose every lie by which they have lived. As light as chaff they blow away. They have no root and cannot slay.
O God, we have gathered, assembled to sing, in thy presence to praise Thee, and crown Thee, our King!
In Forgotten Ground Regained, Issue 9, Winter 2026 Psalms and Meditations
Copyright © Paul D Deane, 1999
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