Week 13 Psalm 25
Yesterday I read a psalm that just came right out and said: good and upright is the Lord.
Since I had just read the last three chapters of Judges I sat thinking about those two different things I’d read back-to-back.
I thought back to an old memory I had from when I visited Victoria in British Columbia. It was an early evening in late summer and the heat was going out of the day and I was walking along Government Street and saw a crowd on the sidewalk leaning on the iron railing, looking down. Across the inner harbour the sun was setting but that’s not what they were watching. I stopped and looked over the edge with them. At the bottom of the stone-block wall and out toward the quay a man was standing semi-circled by people. He was a juggler. We all stood watching him juggle balls, and bowling pins, and burning torches. It was entertaining, even kind of mesmerizing to see him keeping things in the air. At the end he started up two chain saws and juggled those too. It was pretty amazing to watch and you wondered how he could do it.
Yesterday I sat with my good memory of the juggler on the Victoria quayside and thought about how hard it was to keep different things in the air.
Note: Psalm 25:8 (NASB version). See Judges 19-21 for the violent-Levite story.