Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand (Psalm 73:23).

What image comes to your mind when you read this verse?

Is it a child walking quietly with her father, listening and learning and exploring the world?

Is it a hiker stepping across the rocks in a fast-moving stream, holding on to a partner with steady feet and a sure grip?

Is it a bride standing at the altar, taking her husband’s hand as she says, “I do?”

Is it a man old and full of years, breathing his last, holding the hand of the one who has loved him through long years of joy and pain and triumph and loss?

What do you see, Beloved?

It is all these things.

And it is more.

Happy Wednesday.