Planted in Relationship

  Psalm 1 was the first psalm I ever memorized, and it still lives deep in my heart:

“They are like trees planted by streams of water, which yield their fruit in its season, and their leaves do not wither.”

   I return to this image often - especially during this stretch of the Christian year that we call Ordinary Time, or sometimes Kingdomtide.

  The fast pace of holy days and special seasons gives way to a different kind of invitation: to be rooted. To grow slowly, deeply, quietly, in the company of God.