Epiphany 3/Ordinary Time 3
Preaching The Lectionary Psalms for Cycles A, B, C
"[God] alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken" (Psalm 62:6). This may seem, to our ears, a strange title for God. After all, "rock" does not rank high, for most of us, on our list of things of value. But consider the people who first coined the phrase. The Hebrew people began as desert wanderers: shepherds, and hunters, gatherers of wild berries and edible plants. They lived a hand-to-mouth existence, dependent on the goodness of the earth to sustain them.