I was reading Psalm 1 today while I strolled through the fall woods with my dog this morning…

It’s a psalm of “orientation”, and placed where it is at the beginning of the whole collection of psalms it serves let the reader know that an intimacy with God is attained when He becomes the object at the center of your thoughts and desires….

“But his (our) delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night” (ps 1:2)… so I asked the Lord for wisdom here, did he mean Torah, the first five Books of Moses, or torah, the keeping of the law?… and it seemed to me we are called to what Torah and torah are to accomplish… the integration of the will and actions to God.

…and He showed me a tree as I thought, a very large tree, that had been destroyed by some very small beetles that had eaten through the bark…

When we meditate (think about) God day and night, he becomes our lens, and our hearts (interior life) is protected…. the only way into the human heart is to allow things to enter…

and the more we think about God, he honors the intentionality my showing us more and more. He is good like that.