Shelter. As you’ve travelled with the psalmists either in meditation or prayer has it struck you, like me, how often they’re on about shelter? I’m not. I tend to presume my basic need for safety. But notice, when push comes to shove—to threatening, or suffering, or deadly shove— ‘shelter’ is then on our praying lips! It’s desperate people who long for, hope for and plead for shelter. And a desperate person is what God wants us to be—desperate to find our needs met in him. From the gallery of psalms this one paints a picture of that honest and radical reliance. It’s a sort of Mona Lisa psalm in that it’s well known. But I wonder how well-lived.
Author: Sarah Raiter
Sarah Raiter is a wife, mum, grandmother, author, and artist. She grew up Pakistan, and went back there with her husband and children. You'll now find Sarah empty-nesting at St James Old Cathedral where Mike and she live and worship. Through art and words, Sarah "creates for the sheer joy of it, the discipline of it, the compulsion of it… and the kinship through it.  I create, as I pray with all my life, that there might be glimpses of refracted truth and glory." For more of her work, see https://containingcolor.wordpress.com