There’s a specific loneliness that comes with being the one who watches.
“I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.” — Psalm 102:7 (WEB)
David doesn’t compare himself to an eagle or a lion — his usual metaphors. He chooses a sparrow. Small. Ordinary. Alone. On a housetop, which in ancient architecture was a flat, exposed place where you could see everything but belong to nothing. A vantage point of isolation.
These live among our psalms for lonely hearts — one psalm, one honest echo, every morning.
Quietly with you,
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