Sunday: First Week in Lent Year A

 WEEK 2: SUNDAY

Psalm 121 1
 
I must have sung this Psalm a hundred, perhaps a thousand, times before I stopped to think about the famous first verse. (I have seen it carved above doors and mantelpieces in mountainous parts of the country, sometimes in Latin.) ‘I lift my eyes to the hills’: it evokes a romantic picture of the Psalmist gazing up into craggy heights with awe and wonder. And the old translation made it seem as though the
next line (‘from whence comes my help’) was a reference to the hills themselves: I look up to the hills, because that’s where my help comes from...

Taken from Lent For Everyone – Matthew Year A by Tom Wright (2011)

Published by SPCK

For resources that accompany this book visit http://bigbible.org.uk/

The #BigRead2011: meeting together in housegroups to read the Bible,
making use of Tom Wright's Matthew for Lent with opportunities to go
much bigger and much more creative and join in online (inter)nationally.
From quiet sitting rooms with Bibles and books, to coffee shops and
internet chatrooms across the world.