A few more thoughts about Psalm 121

Can you get your head and heart around the intensity of God's love and the depth of the covenant God has made with each and all of God's children? You are never, ever off the radar screen of the Lord who neither slumber nor sleeps. (look at yesterday's reflection on Psalm 121).

Yesterday when our contemplative prayer group gathered around the psalm we also reflected upon this writing of 13th c. nun and mystic, Mechthild of Magdeburg:

God compares the soul to five things:
You are the beautiful rose among thorns.
You are the bee buzzing in the honey.
You are the excellent flying dove.
You are the beautiful sparkling sun.
You are the full moon in the sky.

I can't turn my eyes from you.

It is the last line that really claims my attention and awe this morning. Not only does God compare the soul to things of uncontainable beauty... God (who neither slumber nor sleeps) will not turn His eyes from my deepest aspects...because God cannot.

God's love for us as his creatures compels God to gaze upon us and shelter us each moment. How different life is when we remember that!