holy habitation
How does your day change when you imagine God residing in the places where our relational needs are met?
Psalm 68:5
Parent of orphans and protector of widows is God in their holy habitation.
This verse evokes the places of being, of belonging, of refuge.
Orphans and widows have both experienced an end for this refuge through loss of relationship – the presence of grief, in the midst of isolating need.
The verse does not say that God makes God’s home with the orphans and the widows.
It instead says that God resides in being the place that our relational need is met: the parent to the one who has no one, and the protector to the one who has lost the only security she had in this life.
It’s thought that Psalm 68 is the celebration of the ark of the covenant finding its place in Jerusalem. A final home for a long journey.
God's home is found in the meeting of a need.
How might we participate in co-creating God’s holy habitation by tending to the most vulnerable among us?
How might we bear witness to the vulnerabilities within ourselves if we treated them as the habitation for the sacred?
—Dax Franklin-Hicks