Psalm 65

As found in Wrestling Year A: Connecting Sunday Readings with Lived Experience

Psalm 65 or Psalm 84:1-7

The Lord of hosts, the G*D of Gods, pours out G*D's nature in the form of rain. Much in the Psalms can be traced back to a competition with various Rain Gods. This makes sense in a dry climate or one reliant upon agriculture.

We experience this refreshing and growing rain as a gift of resurrecting, reviving, and restoring community -- the rain of forgiveness, the reign of G*D, the rein on our destructive tendencies.

Of course there is torrential rain, monsoon rain, hurricane rain, typhoon rain, and the like, that erodes and floods out. But here we are in a thankful mood that catches a glimpse of the presence of G*D in the fertility of rain that satisfies our longings and lifts our fainting souls.

As folks made in this G*D's image we too are to become at least a shower of blessing in other's lives. This is our happiness and our praise.

May you be poured out as daily as the bread that sustains you.

http://www.kairoscomotion.org/lectionary/2004/october2004.html

Psalm 65 or Psalm 84:1-7

Happy are we when we are satisfied with the goodness of G*D's presence.

While the experience of G*D's goodness is an intangible, it does have weight. This weight tilts us ever so, a little more, toward expressions of hope.

Can you feel this weight in your life? It is a weight that lifts.

- - -

roaring waves silenced
people's tumult quieted
into this silence
drop signs
it is evening
it is morning
a new day begun

a gentle river
by trees of healing
forgiveness realized
in iniquities midst
another year in
another year begun
feasting on joy

http://kcmlection.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html

Ask G*D, "Who is family?" The Psalmist sees G*D responding, "Creation." Each part wanting to not only play its part, but take on more. There is not only an optimal environmental economy (and that is perceived differently when different values are used as measuring rods), but a rebalancing of too much wind or water in time and space.

The Psalmist perceives G*D's goal to be to find an equalized balance, at least for the moment, when each part sings for joy, together, with the others. Less than joyful singing comes when one perspective or presumptive value trumps the rest.

Here is a brief article, Economy of the Earth, that reflects on how G*D's family of creation can be separated from one another and G*D by market forces and capitalism, that which has an investment in seeing their corner increase in value regardless of other needs. A question before us is that of having the eyes to see "family" in contexts other than human biology. With a clear picture we can identify those parts of the family that hold us back and those parts that call us to move on whether they be economic theologies or Gaian limits.

http://kcmlection.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

"We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy temple" because such are imputed to us.

Can we as happily affirm that we are satisfied with the goodness of our "house", our community, our extended human family, our own body "temple"?

Might we claim abundance comes from a satisfaction with the interrelationship between G*D's house, our house, our neighbor's house? Does creation blossom as a result of how well our houses are open to one another?

Let's back up a moment, is creation blossoming? OK, now, why not? Have we effectively exiled one another from our lives or accepted exile from the lives of others? Pharisees and Tax Collectors, Exiled and Returnees, You and G*D and myself - mirrored images still looking for a home.

http://kcmlection.blogspot.com/2010/10/psalm-65.html