The Traveler's Psalm
The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in. (Psalm 121:8)
Scottish people called [Psalm 121] "The Traveler's Psalm." Whenever a family member, a guest, or a friend was leaving on a journey, this psalm was read or...sung at family prayers. When my father left the "old country"...to sail alone to the United States, he was bidden farewell with this psalm.... In World War I, he carried [its] words with him into battle, and then...in a hospital for almost a year.... In verse 1, the psalmist looked beyond the hills to the God who made them. My father lived in the toughest section of New York City [but] held to the assurance that the God of the hills was also the God of the dangerous city streets.
Scottish people called [Psalm 121] "The Traveler's Psalm." Whenever a family member, a guest, or a friend was leaving on a journey, this psalm was read or...sung at family prayers. When my father left the "old country"...to sail alone to the United States, he was bidden farewell with this psalm.... In World War I, he carried [its] words with him into battle, and then...in a hospital for almost a year.... In verse 1, the psalmist looked beyond the hills to the God who made them. My father lived in the toughest section of New York City [but] held to the assurance that the God of the hills was also the God of the dangerous city streets.
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