Listen to Nick read the Firestarter and the Psalm.

For a video meditation on today’s Psalm created three years ago, Tap here.

Listen to the weeping of God’s people exiled in Babylonia in the 6th century B.C. Tears of anguish, torment, and grief fall into the foreign Kebar River. Now walk with them as tears become shouts of joy as these freed pilgrims make their way once again to the Holy City. As a burst dam, joy explodes.

Exile—is there a sense in which you have been “deported to some foreign land” and yearn to return to the joy of being free and of being who you are in God’s sight? Lent is the season to learn the disciplines that will bring you freedom. For example, learn how to deal with your anger when you allow yourself to be manipulated by those whose will you do instead of God’s.

Let your true feelings fall into the ground as prayer-seeds. The harvest of God’s comforting presence will flower.

Psalm 126

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Example: Sow in tears and reap in joy. v. 5

In the Season of Lent this year we read Psalm 125 to 129.

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