Subscribe to Posts
lectio/ps.8/from the mouths of babes
Listened to Lauren Winner lecturing Monday night. It’s a lovely thing how God speaks to us–straight into us, me that is–through another. My ears heard such speakings from Lauren: that time is meant to be inhabited rather than spent. (As God himself is meant to be inhabited rather than used.) And that to pray the psalms is to enter the prayer life of Jesus.
The latter came to me this morning in Ps. 8, one of the psalms of Jesus, son of Israel, son of man. Words are a way that the insides of another enter us. Words inhabit us and we inhabit words. Like the wood carvings from India: the elephant within the elephant, within the elephants. These psalms are a way to tuck ourselves into God, and especially into the human tucked into God, and into the God tucked into the human, whose point of intersection is Jesus.
From the mouths of babes and sucklings/You founded strength. Is this psalm one of the places he tucked himself into the understanding that human weakness and vulnerability is a foundation of God’s strength projected over all the strength of the foes and the powers that be and the principalities?
Is this the psalm that gave him understanding into the nature of being human before God?
