The great 20th-century fiction writer, Ursula K. Le Guin, in her novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, writes, “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it’s the journey that matters in the end.”

“Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones,

Sight is a powerful spiritual metaphor because it is such an elemental function of human life, deeply linked to perception and understanding, both our experience of it and its lack.

When we find the Israelites in the passage from Exodus we heard earlier, it is still early on in their journey.

One of the many gifts of the psalms is how they expand our imagination of who God is and can be for us. None does this more powerfully and beautifully than our psalm for this morning, Psalm 121, a beloved meditation that describes God as our keeper.