Awe & Wonder

The repetition in this Psalm (“the voice of ADONAI”) points to this literature’s musical origins as an earthly and heavenly call for us to worship the One who is in all things, including the storms of life. This is traditionally the Baptism of the Lord Sunday. The “waters” depicted in this Psalm are a good connection to the “blessing over the water” in which we rehearse the salvation of God through biblical references to water... culminating in the water at Jesus’–and our own–baptism. From the waters of creation to Noah and the flood, the crossing of the Red Sea, and the storms in Paul’s shipwreck, the Bible has much to say about the awe-filled wonders that ancient peoples saw in nature. Waters, and our life of faith, can be stormy at times. But God is there.