When the journey seems long, when we become discourage along the way,
You uphold and sustain us, You restore us with your blessed grace.
When we stumble and stray amid the thorns on false paths,
we are ever humbled by your forgiving Love.
You welcome us home as honored guests, back into the fold of your Heart.
You have prepared a garden for us, a garden of joy hidden in our hearts.
O friends, enter into this eternal garden, befriend the Guide who awaits you.
Enter into the great, resounding Silence, be still and know true peace;
Know the all-embracing life of Love;
and raise your voice with grateful acclamations of praise! Amen.
Nan C. Merrill Psalms for Praying
Reflection:
This final cry (joyful) of prayer and praise echoes the themes found throughout the psalm: goodness of God’s law, that God will save us, and hope for a future of justice, mercy and love. Just as the first verse of Psalm 119 echoes the first verse of Psalm 1, the last verses of these two psalms are similar; God will watch over the righteous, those who follow the way of Love.
May God accept the prayers we have made, along with the psalmist and of all of those who have followed the way of Love.
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