A few nights ago I was walking the beach at dusk. A mist hung in the air, and no one else was out. The words of Psalm 88 were floating through my head as I walked, and I took some videos of the sea that I then put together in the video below. In my podcast conversations, Psalm 88 has come up many times as a powerful source of comfort, despite its abject questioning and desolation. Countless others have prayed these words, over thousands of years. Even in our feelings of forsakenness, we're not alone. This Holy Saturday, that concept has an even deeper meaning, as we are suspended between death and life in that place of questioning, where things haven't been resolved yet, where don't have any easy answers. We don't rush into hope. Today we let the questions be there, and offer them up in prayer.
Here is a lyric video from our forthcoming album (coming very soon). Psalm 88 set to the Irish melody Bean Dubh an Ghleanna (Black Woman of the Glen).
And I also wanted to share the podcast episode that came out a few days ago, in case you haven’t heard it. Munther Isaac, a Palestinian theologian and Lutheran minister in Bethlehem, is my guest. Perhaps our conversation can accompany you in this in between time before tomorrow’s Easter dawn.
"Persistence as a Sign of Deep Faith," with Munther Isaac
Blessings this Holy Saturday, and know that none of us waits for Easter dawn alone,
Kiran