Psalm 114

The sea looked and fled;
Jordan turned back.
The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.
Why is it, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turns the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.

The psalms assigned for today all point to divine strength and mortal weakness.

From this antinomy emerges a keen sense of human vulnerability.

In many ways the sense is accurate, I read Psalm 114 much differently since the earthquake-and-tsunami than before.

Yet the psalms and much more tell us That Which Exists loves and cares for us, and this is a reality I also know.

There is a great chasm between us and God, but we are invited and helped to cross its treacherous landscape and assured of being received on the other side.

Psalm 114