Father God, guide me today to do all things that will bring glory and honor to You Amen Save me, O Lord, from my lying lips and deceitful tongue.  Pslam 102:2

Chrisitan consciousness BEGINS in the painful realization thst what we had assumed was truth is in fact a lie. psalm 120 sung by pilgrims in the first "psalm of accent" 

A long OBEDIENCE and in the SAME DIRECTION, these psalms also offer us a picture of the spiritual journey toward God.  That journey can ONLY begin with profound awareness of our need for something different, As Eugene Peterson wrote in his powerful reflections on Psalm 120, " A person has to be thoroughly disgusted with the way things are to find the motivation to set out on the Christian way....One has to be fed up with the ways in the world before he, before she, acquires an appetite for God's world of grace."   It's so easy to become discouraged by the brokenness and despair we see in our world around us, and sometimes in us, by pervasive ways our culture often shows callous disregard for the harm being done to others, and ourselves.  Psalm 120 laments this honesty: " I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war." V7. But there is healing and freedom in REALIZING that our pain can also AWAKEN us to a NEW BEGINNING through our ONLY help, the Savior Who can guide us from destruction lies into paths of peace and wholeness 121:2.  As we enter into a new day, may we seek Him and HIS ways...for this peace, comfort, healing of mind, body, and soul is undescribable.  EACH DAY IS A NEW BEGINNING IN JESUS...for it is with God ALL things are possible Matthew 19:26