Why Does Praise Exist?

God.  You are wonderful.  Your beautiful creations are agents of truth about You.  I breathe and every breath is Your gift.  I smell and the aroma is You present with me.  I think and my thoughts are ordained by You.  I love You because You conceived love and sowed it into me.  I taste and each cell of my tongue bows in homage to You.  I write and use up your gifts of words.  If I am conscious for a moment, the moment is made by You conscious of me.  In all the heavens, in all the earth, there is only You and apart from You there is no above or below.  No sorrow rises above the fact that i get to be.  No hardship can rival that life is the only realizer of hardship.  No pain can usurp the truth that only our bodies, wonderfully made, can feel pain.

I have been gifted a body that can soak in the ecstasy of me with my lover, but I must also acknowledge that my body can receive, feel and be the vehicle by which great hardship is fully known.  Our bodies, wonderfully created to experience bliss are by the same receptors suffered to know pain.  We must accept the covenant.  Experience is paradise and perdition, but Life is the gift of God.

I am the lesser i am because You are I AM.

I am determined to live a life of praise, to be an ambassador of praise to You.  No one or thing is worthy to stand in the universe beside You.  If there be praise, the pure thing, not the act of praise but that praise is, that it exists, then it could only be because YOU ARE and are worthy of it all.  God in my “lesser than” state, i acknowledge that YOU ARE WHY PRAISE IS!!!

James Turrell's Quaker Meeting House