Playing with Psalm 1

This Sunday, February 17, the appointed psalm is the first one. As a journaling exercise*, I paraphrased it with images and details that speak to me.
Even though the book of Psalms is in the Old Testament, I decided to play with it by adding images from the New Testament and allusions to Jesus:

• Word is capitalized to signify Jesus as the word
• the image of the Tree of Life found in Revelation 22
  
• the Life-Giving water of baptism

 
Psalm 1
The Two Paths

Those who know the Lord
     and are true to their belovedness,
will recognize the path that takes them away from the light
          to sit with those in darkness.
Those who seek the truth
     will delight in and surround themselves with the Word
          of love, forgiveness, justice and grace.
They are like the Tree of Life with twelve kinds of fruit
     and leaves to heal the nations.
They grow even in seasons of rest.

Those who wander from the Life-Giving water
     become dry.
They are lost to God’s people; they are alone.

The path of the wicked will not flourish.
The path of the Lord is Life.
 
Now I will continue to play as I write it in my visual journal and add pictures and color.

Peace in play,
Pam

*I was given Journaling as a Spiritual Practice: Encountering God Through Attentive Writing by Helen Cepero to aid me in my vocational discernment. This is one of the first exercises.