Read Psalms 85-87
Show us Your steadfast love, O
God, and grant us Your salvation (Psalm 85:7)
Teach me Your way, O God, that I
may walk (go, incline my heart) in Your truth (Psalm 86:11)
Glorious things are spoken of
You, O God (Psalm
87:3)
I love these three verses. The verse from Psalm 85 reminds me, invites
me, and calls me to live life with openness and wholeness that comes in
community with the Creator and creation.
The second verse from Psalm 86 tells me I am still learning, I don’t
have it all figured out. And the third
verse from Psalm 87 calls me to share my voice still to process what I am
learning ~ as the cliché goes, those who teach learn more than their students. These verses call me to notice and name:
when, when, and how have I recently felt God’s affection? When was the last time I showed up fully as
myself and felt safe? Where do I long to
know more about God? Who is God for
me? And what song would I sing to God
today?
I invite you to find one verse
for each of today’s Psalms to lay side-by-side to mix and mingle in the
Scriptural chemistry lab of reading. I
invite you not just to read these words, but to let them read
your life and meet you today. May this
exercise offer you an experience of the Eternal that you can share with
others. And remember today to celebrate
on this Juneteenth the God of liberation and transformation who is at work in
the world, even (especially) here and now in, around, through, and sometimes
despite us. Amen.
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