This Saturday at 3pm I begin the adventure of, with others, reading aloud all 150 psalms from the Psalter. A small and likely ever changing group of us will be sitting in our sacred space as the light slowly changes. We will soon get into a rhythm of reading and sining aloud. We will grow used to one another's voices. There will be, I would guess moments of grace and stretches of boredom. There will be times we will want to quit. In all likelihood we will press on. Gradually, in a very subtle way, if my prior experience is any indication our sense of time and place will shift.
Words can't capture this feeling or perception with great precision. The church talks about Kairos or God time contrasted with Chronos or clock time. It is a sense that reality is larger and stranger and more mysterious than we know. We touch, if only for a few hours, a bit of eternity.
If you aren't there, think of us from 3pm to about 9pm, saying psalms in our sacred space, holding open an entrance to a different place on behalf of our whole St. Paul's family. Pray for us as we will for you.
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