Seven times a day

        I praise You

for Your righteous rules.

               Psalm 119. 164

(How differently my heart would be

    if I praised God

    seven times a day?

How differently would I see?

How differently would I live?

Praise does not get God's attention

    but refocuses my attention

                    towards Him.)

    

O LORD,

You have surrounded us

with songs of deliverance.

You indwell,

infiltrate,

intervene,

infect our lives with Your Spirit

           in all things

for our good

and for Your glory.

May our lives be marked

     by praise to You.

We praise You

not just for what is tangible,

not just for what we understand,

but the eternal.