
Psalm 121 I will lift my eyes to the hills From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord! Now I realize I live in a part of the country most people would describe as flat. Sure, as Wisconsinites we get a bit defensive about that...start talking about topography and rolling hills near New Glarius and the joy that is looking out over a harvested corn field to see for miles and miles and that at least we are not as flat as Nebraska! The psalmist talks about looking to the hills for help, which for most of us we take to mean that this psalm is about the beauty of God's creation and how God's fingerprints are all over the world. But something a bit more subversive is going on here. You see Psalm 121 was often sung by pilgrims as they were traveling. Sometimes in places they had never been to before...in a foreign land...in unfamiliar territory. Now stop and think...if you don't know where you are going and don't have your smartpho