Seeking Shalom Lift Up Your Heads Read: Psalm 24 Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the king of glory may come in (Psalm 24:7 & 9, NRSV). The…
Seeking Shalom The Peace of Wild Things Read: Psalm 104 You make darkness when it is night, when all the animals of the forest come creeping out. The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food…
Seeking Shalom Peace Like a River Read: Psalm 46 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High (Psalm 46:4, NRSV). “We just need somebody to…
Seeking Shalom Pursuing Peace Depart from evil and do good; seek peace, and pursue it (Psalm 34:14, NRSV). Henry David Thoreau once went to jail for protesting an injustice. (He refused to pay a…
Seeking Shalom So Many Questions Read: Psalm 13 How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? (Psalm 13:1, NRSV). I am a reluctant convert to…
Seeking Shalom Hell in a Handbasket Read: Psalm 2 Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain? He who sits in the heavens laughs; the LORD has them in derision (Psalm 2:1 &…
