Thursday, December 19, 2019

In the Morning
Psalm 30

Weeping may tarry for the night,
but joy comes with the morning —Psalm 30:5b

“Life is suffering,” Buddhists say and almost everyone else who looks at life realistically. Some sorrow can be alleviated and some cannot. Some sadness may follow us to the grave. 

What can we say about wounds that do not heal? 

The "morning" that  the psalmist envisions is that “great gettin'-up  morning,” or so I believe, when Love will call us home, when sorrow and sadness will flee away. ”Weeping may tarry for the night,” but this is not forever.

That idea alone, turns my "mourning into dancing” this morning. My feet, like Snoopy’s start  tapping...

David Roper
12.19.19


Going and Not Knowing

"By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing...