PSALM 19

 

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This psalm is all about a message, Lord, a message you are sending that is no longer getting through.  If only folk would stop, look, and listen, step aside out of their insane scramble after all the shoddy trinkets that are dangled glistening, before their eyes, and catch, again, the old-world sounds of geese above the autumn fog, and feel the sharp, fresh wind across their faces, the rich soil beneath their feet, between their fingers.  If we, your people, could only do all this, we might just reconnect with that earliest of ancestors who, venturing out beyond the mouth of his smoke-darkened cave, lifted his eyes above to the star- encrusteed heavens, and exclaimed in wordless awe and wonder, groped toward thoughts of God.

 

What progress we have made since that cave mouth!  What inconceivable improvements in all the standards of our living!  Yet I sometimes wonder what it all has cost, what has been lost along the way, how it is that we no longer hear the eloquent silence that speaks to us of you, Lord God.

 

There is, of course, another side to nature; there are earthquakes, floods, disease, and human suffering…

 

“The starry heavens above me and the moral law within”; open my eyes this day, Lord, to these signposts set within the world that point me toward you.  Teach me reverence and obedience-and faith, which is the fullest combination of the two.  Amen.

 

From Praying the Psalms by J.Barrie Shepherd

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