Scripture Text: Psalm 123

Bryan Buck

Quotes for Reflection

Paul Goodman, Little Prayers and Finite Experience

Patience is drawing on underlying forces; it is powerfully positive, though to a natural view it looks like just sitting it out. How would I persist against positive eroding forces if I were not drawing on invisible forces? And patience has a positive tonic effect on others; because of the presence of the patient person, they revive and go on, as if he were the gyroscope of the ship providing a stable ground. But the patient person himself does not enjoy it.

Steven Lawson, Psalms 76-150

Herein is found the encouragement every believer needs. In this psalm is the needed motivation to look beyond all one's present circumstances to ...