today's number (2)

I didn’t plan to write a sequel to the prequel of this post, but I think I like to use the same title for the post so I’m game.

I wrote the prequel as my birthday post last year and it was my birthday yesterday :(. Did I just hear you say “huh?!” cause that smiley is sad and you are seeing correctly? My sister doesn’t think that’s cool too.

Yes! I’m not excited about this particular birthday cause since the very beginning of this year, the new age I’d be had been ringing in my head like I had already turned the age, I’ve felt like an agbaya with nothing to show for my age ever since and everyday has felt like a negative countdown to the D-day.

Don’t worry my musing today is not so melancholic, it’s just more introspective than last year’s so I might need some light cause it’s getting dark in here.

Oh! Here’s the light. It is Psalm 90. To my surprise the writer is Moses, funny I never knew that detail till I read it last Friday and was sure this was going to feature on my birthday post. I think he wrote on his 80^th birthdayJ. It comes in MSG version. Enjoy!

Psa 90:1  A prayer of Moses, man of God. God, it seems you've been our home forever;

Psa 90:2  long before the mountains were born, Long before you brought earth itself to birth, from "once upon a time" to "kingdom come"--you are God.

Psa 90:3  So don't return us to mud, saying, "Back to where you came from!"

Psa 90:4  Patience! You've got all the time in the world--whether a thousand years or a day, it's all the same to you.

Psa 90:5  Are we no more to you than a wispy dream, no more than a blade of grass

Psa 90:6  That springs up gloriously with the rising sun and is cut down without a second thought?

Psa 90:7  Your anger is far and away too much for us; we're at the end of our rope.

Psa 90:8  You keep track of all our sins; every misdeed since we were children is entered in your books.

Psa 90:9  All we can remember is that frown on your face. Is that all we're ever going to get?

Psa 90:10  We live for seventy years or so (with luck we might make it to eighty), And what do we have to show for it? Trouble. Toil and trouble and a marker in the graveyard.

Psa 90:11  Who can make sense of such rage, such anger against the very ones who fear you?

Psa 90:12  Oh! Teach us to live well! Teach us to live wisely and well!

Psa 90:13  Come back, GOD--how long do we have to wait?-- and treat your servants with kindness for a change.

Psa 90:14  Surprise us with love at daybreak; then we'll skip and dance all the day long.

Psa 90:15  Make up for the bad times with some good times; we've seen enough evil to last a lifetime.

Psa 90:16  Let your servants see what you're best at-- the ways you rule and bless your children.

Psa 90:17  And let the loveliness of our Lord, our God, rest on us, confirming the work that we do. Oh, yes. Affirm the work that we do!

I guess you want to post your wishes now. Feel free to do so in the comment box. XOXO