I’ve had the opportunity to learn some good things this week at work, from my students and from my co-workers. In a recent meeting, one of my co-workers shared Psalm 131. A great example of right psalm at right time, the English Standard Version goes like this:
O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;
my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things
too great and too marvelous for me.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.O Israel, hope in the Lord
from this time forth and forevermore.
Tradition has it that this is a psalm of ascent, one sung by pilgrims on the way to Jerusalem. The first verse finds the singer in the right disposition, a place of humility and not pride. Instead of focusing on things beyond his control, he calms the one thing that he can: himself. All things in place, then, and that means hope in the right thing: the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
A simple psalm worth singing.
Space Enough, and Time 
So beautiful and meaningful. I wish we had the original music to go alond with the lyrics! I would learn Hebrew for that.