Psalm Meditation 1190 ¶Easter ¶April 9, 2023 ¶Psalm 68 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+68&version=NRSVUE (NRSV) ¶A friend and I walked home from a youth group activity in the dark, without telling anyone we were leaving. As we walked our conversation turned to not being frightened because we were together. He was comforted by height, and I was comforted by his scrappy nature. Between the two of us, we were a force to be reckoned with. Until we got home, of course. Then we had to answer for our foolishness of going away without telling anyone that we were leaving. The important part here is that we felt safe in each other’s company. ¶The psalmist is grateful for the company that God offers to those who need it most. There were no systems in place to care for those with no family. To know that each person was a part of the family of God gave the community a reason to help. As a part of the same family, each was responsible for every other person. To know that the greatest to the least were children of God meant that we were, and are, answerable to God for the way we treated or ignored our brothers and sisters God gave us. ¶When we treat each person in our community as a member of the family of God, we make peoples’ heads explode in wonder and awe, that we take seriously our responsibility for each other. As we treat others as God treats us, we help usher in a world in which we can walk fearlessly, knowing that we are surrounded by those who love and care for us because we are all children of the one God. “Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation.“ ¶April 7, 2023 ¶LCM