Our Mighty Companion

Our Mighty Companion

A recent lectionary reading for September 10 http://www.io.com/~kellywp/YearB_RCL/Pentecost/BProp18_RCL.html was Psalm 146 which relates directly to Peaceful Living’s principle of companionship. It reads:

Alleluia

Praise Yahweh, my soul

I mean to praise Yahweh all my life,

I mean to sing to Yahweh as long as I live

Do not put your trust in men in power,

Or in any mortal man-he cannot save,

He yields his breath and goes back to the earth he came from,

And on that day all his schemes perish.

Happy the man who has the God of Jacob to help him,

whose hope is fixed on Yahweh his God,

maker of heaven and earth,

and the sea, and all these hold!

Yahweh, forever faithful,

gives justice to those denied it,

gives food to the hungry,

gives liberty to prisoners.

Yahweh restores sight to the blind

Yahweh straightens the bent.

Yahweh protects the stranger

he keeps the orphan and the widow.

Yahweh loves the virtuous

and frustrates the wicked.

Yahweh reigns forever,

your God, Zion, from age to age.

For us at Peaceful Living we are committed to being companions to the individuals we are here to serve. The root of companionship is “to break bread with”. We are here to break bread with the people for which Yahweh holds dear. But we cannot do this alone…and so as we are “tiny companions” so is Yahweh our “mighty companion”.