Psalm 121

Psalm 121 King James Version (KJV)

121 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.


     This is so spot on to my current situation which is economically very uncomfortable.  I wonder often why the Lord allows or perhaps requires us to go through these times.  Perhaps it’s to help us develop our empathy but surely we needn’t suffer every crappy thing that has happened to every human being ourselves.  I lack the courage to help others when I am unsure my own needs will be met and I seem to have difficulty developing the faith I need to know that they will.  Sometimes it’s difficult to separate needs from wants.

 

Getting Old

John 21:18 King James Version (KJV)

18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.


     We’re all going to get old, unless we die young. With age often comes various infirmities. Sucks!

New Heaven and Earth, Seas

     I posted the other day about Revelations describing the new heaven and new Earth and how the seas were no more.  I brought this up at a men’s group meeting that I attend Friday mornings that is sponsored by one of the semi-retired Pastors of Shoreline Covenant Church, and what he told me that this wasn’t literal, which makes sense as pretty much all of Revelations is heavily metaphoric, but rather “seas” represent evil, there will be no more evil.  That makes me feel better because I’m not sure I’d want to live forever in a place where there were no seas.  One would presume they’d be cleaner than the water in the picture below.  Don’t know where that was taken but the water there is icky.

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Mae Playing @ Dog Park

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     Took Mae to the dog part for a while this afternoon.  Her human (Carl), who had promised her a walk yesterday, reneged on his promise.   She was restless and a general pain today.  She chased and was chased around quite a bit so should be worn out now.  Even so she was a real pain to capture when it was time to leave.  She has zero recall.

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Stand Still

Exodus 14:10-14King James Version (KJV)

10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord.

11 And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?

12 Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.

14 The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.


     Hold your peace.  Man I wish I were better at that.  Standing still waiting on the Lord, not something I’m very good at.  Some time in meditation is about as close as I can get.  Otherwise my mind is always racing, there are always 50 things that need to be done, or at least so it seems to me.