A pilgrimage song.

...

Have mercy because we've had more than enough shame.

We've had more than enough mockery from the self-confident, more than enough shame from the proud.

Psalms 123:1-4 CEB

"we've had more than enough shame."

Shame can be a helpful motivator - when I've done something wrong, something that has hurt someone else, the shame of that can be a helpful motivator for me to change.

It can help me to own my actions and choices and prompt me not to repeat them, and invite me into better ways of being and relating to others.

But shame is unhealthy and not even ours when it's dumped on us by others actions and others choices. 

This song seems to be about that type of shame.

Where the words and actions of others are dumping shame on us.

Maybe you're familiar with that.

This song of pilgrimage, of ascent, of steps, helps us in the very first line;

"I raise my eyes to you - you who rule heaven."

Psalms 123:1 CEB

Even if our head is down to raise our eyes, shift our vision to look up and out at the Eternal.

We're invited to relocate ourselves in the Big Story.

We're invited to join the song writer and look up, to pay as much attention as we can muster on the One who holds us all...

#psalms 

#psalms123

#pilgrimage 

#thesmallestofsteps

#Monday 

#Godsgym 

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