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What Rest?
The Songs of Ascent are a collection of pilgrim songs — songs sung by those on the road who are journeying to God. These psalms contain encouragement and counsel for the pilgrim, and like a geographer, these songs describe the lay of the land of a pilgrim’s world. The lesson…
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What Redemption?
This sonnet is based on Psalm 130 which is both a song of ascent and is one of what St. Augustine termed the penitential psalms — a collection of confessions of sin of which Psalm 51 is the more often well-known. In the pilgrim’s sojourn to his destination with God,…
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Good Grief
Here’s an example of how other’s words are like seeds which find their way into your imagination and grow and bear fruit — in this case a poem. Tish Harrison Warren, writes of her season of lament and grief HERE. In her post she says “grief is like sand”. That…
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What Perseverance?
The Songs of Ascent are the songs of pilgrims. The collection of Psalms from 120-134 is believed to the collection of songs sung by pilgrims as they made their way from their home villages to Jerusalem during the great annual festivals of Judaism. Full of encouragement, wisdom, and guidance, these…
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What Blessing?
Psalm 128 is the ninth in the collection of pilgrim songs called the Songs of Ascent. Each of the songs offers encouragement and wisdom regarding one’s walking the pilgrim way to meet with God. The destination for the Israelite was the Temple in Jerusalem, but they, as we, understood the…
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