Prayer: Thanks, Lord, for staying awake. Amen.
Reading: Psalm 121 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: Many of the cemeteries in this area are either on a hill or in sight of a mountain. I don’t know why; it just seems to be the case around here. So, officiating at interments, I often turn to this psalm. I read it and don’t need to comment. God’s comfort and strength is right there for the one being buried and those grieving. But we don’t need to be in a cemetery to be blessed by these words. Just be alive, and in this part of the country you can’t do much or go very far without seeing the mountains. Seeing them, seemingly immovable features, we are reminded that God, the creator, is our immovable help. God never sleeps, doesn’t even slumber! God keeps us. Wherever you go today, or wherever you have been: The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and forevermore. --Jim Bricker
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