Under His Shadow

How precious is Your loving kindness, O God! 

Therefore the children of men

put their trust under the shadow

of Your wings.  Ps.36:7

     All of us need to know that we are loved.  Love from others can turn our darkest moments into ones of joy.  To know we are loved by our Creator, however, brings a joy that will last forever.

     One definition of the word " shadow" is an inseparable companion.  To think that God is our inseparable companion, protecting us beneath the "shadow of His wings," enables us to soar above all the heartaches, the pain, the everyday stress that confronts us  We are not alone.  We are loved.

       God is the presence, warm, all enfolding,

       touching the drab world into brilliance,

       lifting the sad heart into               song,                                               

       indescribable, beyond understanding,

       yet by a bird's note, a chord of music,

        a light at sunset, a sudden movement of rapt insight,

        a touch of love, making the whole universe

        a safe home for the soul.

              an early Christian