Shelter Me

This week our family is recovering from what felt like Bubonic Plague. I'll post pictures of Zach's hospital stay and the two ER visits soon when there is a little more time.

For now, I'm posting a blues/rock song I ran across today. While in the hospital with Zachary, I watched more news than any healthy person should watch. The Japan earthquake happened the first night of Zach's stay, so the news covered nothing but the earthquakes devastation and unrest exploding all over the middle east. The only word I could think of to describe it all was, "biblical."

The lyrics describe not only the trouble of our little family the past week, but what I felt while watching the news four days in a row. (It is difficult at any point to watch the news and not feel like singing a Psalm of lament in response.)

Shelter Me, with lyrics from Psalm 91:

dark waters rise and thunders pound
the wheels of war are going round
and all the walls are crumbling
shelter me lord underneath your wings


Psalm 91

¹ Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.^a]">[a]
² I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”

³ Surely he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
⁴ He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
⁵ You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
⁶ nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
⁷ A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
⁸ You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.

⁹ If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
¹⁰ no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
¹¹ For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
¹² they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
¹³ You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

¹⁴ “Because he^b]">[b] loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
¹⁶ With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”