SoH crown the DIS tlhej lIj bounty.
You crown the year with your bounty. Psalm 65:11a
You crown the year with your bounty. Psalm 65:11a
How do you regard your birthday, you qoSlIj? Many, as they grow older agonize over them, anticipating each with a wary caution that considers each additional birthday candle some point scored against them.
I had the good fortune to 1) be born late in the year and 2) be the youngest in my family for the first decade of my life. Those two factors meant I always felt I was the youngest in my family or class - it meant, and still means, that I always look forward to getting another year added to my age.
SoH crown the DIS tlhej lIj bounty.
You crown the year with your bounty. Psalm 65:11a
You crown the year with your bounty. Psalm 65:11a
Time is part of God's creation, a creation that the Bible reminds us "was good." So time itself is not evil, is not our enemy.
In our survey of the Klingon alphabet, D is the second letter we consider. Always a capital "D", it is pretty much pronounced as our 'd.' The word we consider her is DIS, year. Here, in Psalm 65, this word translates shaneh - a word that appears over 600 times in the Bible.
DIS is one of a number of time words we know in the Klingon language. DIS, year. jaj, day. jar, month. for example. Now, while we don't know how precisely these correspond to the human terms, we do know from this that Klingons experience time much as we do. That would suggest that, they too understand time as a march forward (never a retreat), an advance into an unknown country, a country we fear holds terror and loss.
But there's another way to look at this. Time is a gift - God gives it and uses it to draw us out to maturity - to become, to grow into, the person he wants us to become. Reflecting on this verse, Spurgeon says:
The harvest is the plainest display of the divine bounty, and the crown of the year. The Lord himself conducts the coronation, and sets the golden coronal upon the brow of the year. Or we may understand the expression to mean that God's love encircles the year as with a crown; each month has its gems, each day its pearl. Unceasing kindness girdles all time with a belt of love. The providence of God in its visitations makes a complete circuit, and surrounds the year. (Spurgeon)Each day, each month, each year - our lives are SURROUNDED, encircled by God's love. Next time a birthday looms, or you spot a wrinkle or grey hair - look past that to realize how you don't move forward through the years alone - but that with God, each year will be crowned with his bounty and love.
5 comments:
it is hard to always believe this when each year passes and I am no closer to seeing the answer to my prayers. God made me a woman, but for some reason he withholds from me what I consider to be the ultimate role for a woman, that of wife and mother. That's why he made us right? It can be very disheartening :(
God has such wonderful ways to surprise us - and I'm not sure we can ever know ahead of time what he's got planned. Have you ever read "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom?
I don't always like His surprises, but I guess He knows what's best. {{I'm now having to move back in with my mother b/c she needs someone more responsible living with her other than my youngest brother...feels like a death sentence on the entire family of my own dream...but that's all it is right? A dream? it's not like I've even got a boyfriend.}} I've started that book, but I got distracted and never finished it.
sorry if I sound so negative, but I'm going through a really hard time and I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel yet.
Sorry to hear this - It sounds like a tough time. Prayers for the light to break throught!
thnx..I second those prayers! :)
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