Reflections During Advent Week I
A Psalm for the Journey Psalm 122:1. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.” “I was glad,” the psalmist exclaimed, and several thousand years later the words remain fresh and dynamic. I love this opening verse of Psalm 122 for its exuberance. Most biblical scholars believe the psalm was written for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. How eager the speaker seems to make that journey, how delighted to hear that the time to begin it has drawn near. The firs