Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil. Let your work be manifest to your servants, and your glorious power to their children. Let the favour of the Lord our God be upon us, and prosper for us the work of our hands—O prosper the work of our hands! (Psalm 90: 14-17)

Our God is clearly - perhaps principally - a creator God. We share this character. Each of us are creators.

We invest time, energy, and much of our self-identity in our creating. Whether the creation is a family, a business, a garden, poetry, art, dinner or building a truck engine it is difficult - perhaps inappropriate - to completely separate ourselves from our creation.

The psalmist sings of the work of our hands: ma'aseh yad. This might also be translated as the outcome of our power or the product of our strength.

This psalmist is thought to be Moses. He asks that we pay attention to the model of God's work and that we be confirmed by God in our work. Both God's work and our work, two different Hebrew words, can also be translated as staves, as are used to stablize a young tree or straighten a foundation.

In the example of God's work and in choosing our own work we can have two strong supports for becoming whole.