Psalms in the world ... Psalm 99 This Sunday is Transfiguration Sunday. A time when we remember Jesus ascending to a mountain top, communing with God up there and the disciples being confused. I don't know about you but I am often confused. The world is a complicated place these days. And yet, looking up to the mountain tops, remembering God's promises (as the Psalm declares) is always a helpful posture when those moments come. May this Psalm and the view of the sunrise over the mountains remind you of God's presence in our lives this day.

Posted by Eidsvold Lutheran Church on Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Psalms in the world ... Psalm 37 "Put your trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and find safe pasture." Those words spoke to me and led me to imagine this place. It is now a managed piece of land that doesn't have any farming activity going on but once it did. The barn once housed animals. The line of trees on the property once sheltered people from the wind. The land was a pasture that provided a home for animals and for a community. What "pastures" do you come from? From where does your life spring? And how has or is God your stronghold? May you find answers to those questions and more as you hear these timeless words today.

Posted by Eidsvold Lutheran Church on Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Psalms in the world ... Psalm 1 "They are like trees planted by streams of water ..." What a gift it is to sit and contemplate water that runs and invites an experience of tranquility. I also think that it had to be a gift to see abundance in God's world and be reminded of how God's love moves. Of course, this Psalm also deals with the wicked but it is more so a reminder that their way will not endure than it is about the wicked themselves. What invites you to be reminded of the goodness of God? Where do you see God's light and love reflected in your corner of the world? Where does delight break in and make you hold your breath for the beauty of it?

Posted by Eidsvold Lutheran Church on Monday, February 7, 2022

Psalms in the world ... Psalm 138 This week the language of the psalm led me to picture this beautiful spot at Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp. An ELCA camping ministry, during the summer this beautiful worship spot will be filled with hundreds of voices who will "sing of the ways of the Lord." We don't typically think of kids as being "rulers" like this psalm envisions but what if we did? What if our concerns, that which we worked on with our most earnest focus, were the needs, "demands" of what our children need? It's an interesting thought. Thank you to Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp for always putting kids and youth ministry first!

Posted by Eidsvold Lutheran Church on Tuesday, February 1, 2022