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God and Ankles

You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn (2 Samuel 22:37).

In preparation for this Sunday, I've been looking at "final speeches" from various people in the Bible, and came upon this "final prayer" by David, and I love it.

I love this verse especially because David's prayer begins with a grand opening praising God's grandeur and majesty, as well he should, and then we have this - this concern God has about David's ankles of all things!  But isn't that just like God - drawing us up and beyond ourselves into God's dreams and visions and noble causes and glorious, well, glory, and also concerned about, well, ankles, turning or not.

This also reminds me of an editorial by David Brooks in yesterday's NY Times.  He references Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik who wrote that:
       God is in one guise majestic and infinite, the author of the universe.  But when Solovetchik's wife lay on her deathbed, God did not appear that way.  Instead, he appeared as a "close friend, brother, father...I felt His warm hand, as it were, on my shoulder, I hugged His knees, as it were.  He was with me in the narrow confines of a small room, taking up no space at all."

That's a pretty good depiction of God's ways with us, isn't it?  

Love and prayers, Dan

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