Sunday Psalms;

A pilgrimage song.

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

Just as the eyes of servants attend to their masters' hand, just as the eyes of a female servant attend to her mistress' hand - thats how our eyes attend to the LORD our God until he has mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, LORD! 

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

The writer is watching, waiting,

hoping, 

for change.

Change in their situation.

This is a song for when we feel stuck.

Stuck becuase we are powerless. 

The words of others, the actions of others have ground us down.

This seems to be the place this song was written from.

A song of pilgrimage, of ascents, inherent in it is movement, finding that space, that way to take the smallest of steps.

And in this song the step is a movement of the eyes - metaphorically anyway - the song writer says to look up, to choose to focus our attention away from whatever is grasping us, and look to Yahweh.

Yahweh, the self-existant, the Eternal.

When we're stuck 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 

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#thesmallestofsteps

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