Attentive Love

How is my lament and worry re-sized in relationship to God’s presence?

Psalm 102:17-20

YHWH, you will answer the prayer of the abandoned,

and will not scorn their petitions.

Put this on record for the next generation,

so that a people not yet born can praise YHWH:

“YHWH has leaned down

from the sanctuary on high,

has looked down at earth from heaven, to hear the groans of the captive,

and to set free those condemned to death.”

The psalmist’s lament rises from rubble: “God regards the prayer of the destitute.”

Empires crumble like threadbare coats, yet the Holy One abides, stitching eternity into the frayed edges of now. Our stories feel fragile—jobs shift, bodies ache, news cycles churn—but divine constancy outlasts the headlines. Notice that the same God who laid earth’s foundation bends close to your whispered exhaustion.

How is my lament and worry re-sized in relationship to God’s presence?

Hold a stone (pocket-sized permanence) while you pray or journal a current worry. Feel its weight as a tactile reminder that God’s years “have no end,” and neither does God’s attentive love for you.

—Libby Tedder Hugus