A Psalm for Always

O God

You are in the flowers

And also in the weeds.

O God

You are in the sunshine

But also in the demolishing storm.

I was told to write a Psalm for Praise

Or

A Psalm for Lament

But even honeybees have stingers.

Why not write a Psalm for Always?

Even parents can praise their children in one sentence

And discipline them in the next.

This goes the same for you

O God

I love you when I see the good.

And there is so much good.

But I cry out “Why O God?” when I see the bad.

And there is so much bad.

Why not write a Psalm for Always?

For just as we cannot have light

Without dark.

We cannot have a God that only allows the good.

For even honeybees have stingers.

Just as so many of your followers strive for heaven outside of Earth.

There, where there is so much good.

They need to strive to create Heaven here on Earth.

Because here, there is so much bad.

And you are not just “there”

O God

In the good.

You are here

O God

In the bad.

Not just there in the flowers

But here in the weeds.

Not just there in the sunshine

But here in the storm.

Here where even honeybees have stingers.

Not just in times of Praise.

Not just in times of Lament.

But in Always.