The first four
verses of Psalm 126 remember the dream come true as exiles returned home and
mouths were filled with laughter and tongues tingled with joy. When the memory
of the moment is recounted the psalmist is glad indeed. But apparently those
fortunes have been spent and in the same way that the dry wadis of the Negev
wait for the spring rain the psalmist asks that the past be repeated in the
present. Restore our fortunes like the watercourses of the Negev so that tears
sown in sorrow will reap joyful songs. Faith remembers the joy of the past to
endure the pain of the present by hoping in the promise of the future. You
might be in a time of waiting and if so need to remember the times when
rejoicing came easily and if you cannot perhaps there is someone who can. Which
is why if you are so gifted as to be in a laughter tongue tingling time of being glad indeed give thanks to the Lord and do what you can to share your
sheaves of joy with those who weep.
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