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I chose a calming photo today. My devotional practice for the last few weeks has been to use the common lectionary passages as journaling prompts. For proper context, I need to say that I don't generally start my day with devotional practice, but rather with my phone, and instagram alongside NPR. A few days ago, I was gutted by the news of Israel again bombing Rafah, and tents filled with refugees being burned. There was a video of a child screaming as he watched his tent burning, his father still inside. Where is the humanity in this???? Later in the day, still filled with this horror, I pulled up the passage that was next for me, Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18. O LORD, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you know it completely. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon
