Quote of the Day

“Christian worship gathers the energy and focuses the motivation that transforms us from consumers who use work to get things into people who are intimate and in whom work is a way of being in creative relationship with another.” - Eugene Peterson, The Journey, commenting on Psalm 127

 ¹ Unless the LORD builds the house,
   those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the LORD ^(B)watches over the city,
   the watchman stays awake in vain.
² It is in vain that you rise up early
   and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious ^(C)toil;
   for he gives to his ^(D)beloved ^(E)sleep.

 ³ Behold, ^(F)children are a heritage from the LORD,
   ^(G)the fruit of the womb a reward.
⁴ Like arrows in the hand of ^(H)a warrior
   are the children^[a] of one's youth.
⁵ Blessed is the man
   who fills his quiver with them!
He shall not be put to shame
   when he speaks with his enemies ^(I)in the gate.^[b]

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