Sunday Psalms;

A song of pilgrimage.

LORD, 

remember David - all the ways he suffered and how he swore to the LORD, 

how he promised the strong one of Jacob:

"I won't enter my house, won't get into my bed.

I won't let my eyes close, won't let my eyelids sleep, until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the strong one of Jacob."

Psalms 132:1-5 CEB

This song of pilgrimage seems very personal. David believing he had to do something for God, and this picture of not resting until it was done, and as the song goes on a kind of merging of David's prosperity and God's blessing, an interesting collection of ideas.

I'm wondering what song I would write today.

What I would say about who God is, what He might want or expect from me, how I relate to Him, what I might want or expect from Him?

And how that might have changed, from a year ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago.

It's OK for our songs to reflect where we're at. 

Our hopes, fears, losses, regrets, joys, looking back, looking forward, what we hold as true, the things we're wrestling with.

Perhaps today you might be able to find some time to write some of your song of pilgrimage, your psalm...

Songs of pilgrimage, journey, ascent, don't have to rhyme, answer anything, be eloquent, just reflect where we are today...so let this song invite us to write our own...

#psalms 

#pilgrimage 

#writeyourownsong