A Mathematician's Psalm

A Mathematician's Psalm

Gene Chase

Praise You, O Lord, for inverse square laws

By which You hold the earth to the sun

And warm us just enough.

Praise You, O Lord, for the exponential function

And its inverse the logarithm

So pain does not double with pressure,

But growth is proportional to capacity.

Praise You, O Lord, for the continuity of creation.

Cars don't break down in an instant without warning;

Eyesight dims without sudden blackness;

Memory and imagination link past and future with the present;

Heaven is a prepared place for prepared people.

Let all that has functional representation praise the Lord!

Praise ye the Lord.

Copyright © 1979. Gene B. Chase. All rights reserved.