The question everyone is asking these days, 6 weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic is “how much longer?” How long til we flatten the curve, how long til we can re-start out economy? How long til we can visit and hug our kids and grand-kids, our elderly. How long until we can resume life like the social beings we are? How long til we have a vaccine? We aren’t the first generation to wonder how much longer the unbearable is going to continue. …
Do you ever find yourself just longing for the day when all this Covid-19 business is behinds us? Do you ever been in a situation so overwhelming you just wanted to escape? Psalm 11 tells of a time the poet found himself in such danger that his friends urged him to escape like a bird flies to the safety of the bushes and a deer bounds for the deep woods when it smells the archer. The poet’s friends can see…
Psalm 8 is one of the crown jewels of the Hebrew Psalter. It is full of awe and wonderment at the beauty of the natural world and the lofty purpose of our humanity. The poem begins and ends with an exclamation of wonder at God whose majesty permeates the world. And at the very center of the poem that same astonishment that we mere mortals should be the focus of God’s extraordinary love and care. This psalm asserts that God…
O Lord, hear me as I pray;Pay attention to my groaning.Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God,For I pray to no one but you.Listen to my voice in the morning, Lord.Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly. Psalm 5:1-3 As a morning prayer, Psalm 5 is a companion to Psalm 4 which was a prayer for going to bed and handing everything over to God. Psalm 5 helps us begin our day with God….