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Psalm 134: Blessing

Psalm 134: Blessing

What is it that you live for? And if you got it, would you be happy? One of the surprising but repeated admissions of successful people is that success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It simply doesn’t deliver the sense of fulfilment that it promises. World leaders...
Psalm 133: Unity

Psalm 133: Unity

What would it take for people today to co-exist in peace and harmony? I know a Russian pastor whose attempts to bring peace was one of the most moving things I’ve heard from Ukraine in recent months. At the start of the war he wrote a public letter to Ukrainian...
Psalm 132: Anticipation

Psalm 132: Anticipation

I remember not being able to sleep the night before our wedding. Partly, it was nerves; mostly, it was anticipation. The day we’d been planning for months was almost here, and there was so much to look forward to.  The Psalms of Ascents were a group of travellers’...
Psalm 131: Contentment

Psalm 131: Contentment

Jason Robinson, the World Cup-winning English rugby player, once told of an experience of jealousy. He was flying high as the star player of his team, with success on the pitch and all the trappings of fame off it. But inwardly he was struggling, and was perplexed by...
Psalm 130: Drowning

Psalm 130: Drowning

“You’ve only yourself to blame.” How I hated being told this as a kid! The worst bit, of course, was knowing it was probably true: I’d got myself into a jam, and it was one of my own making. How do we deal with our troubles when we know we’ve brought them on...
Psalm 129: Patience in Oppression

Psalm 129: Patience in Oppression

We have a lot to learn from farmers. They are often associated with hardship, because their work can be back-breaking, and it never stops all year round. They’re also considered a picture of patience, having to wait for good weather – which is completely out of...