Oh Deer!

The picture you see was taken by me a couple days ago as I was driving past one of the football fields at K-1. I don't know if you can see them, but there are twelve deer feeding! They just move around our little neighborhood like they were at a wildlife park, free as can be! My kids love looking out the window at the deer. Carter wants to yell at them and scare them. I have to restrain him. There are just a few bucks, a few fawns, and a lot of mommas. The only negative thing about all the deer is that they like to cross the street a lot, and we have to be very observant as we drive around the neighborhood. They are always in search of peaceful, green pastures and good food! And so it is with you and I in a spiritually sense. We are to be like deer in the way we seek God, and find our peace and sustenance in Him.

1 As the deer pants for streams of water,

so my soul pants for you, O God.

² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?

³ My tears have been my food
day and night,
while men say to me all day long,
"Where is your God?"

⁴ These things I remember
as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go with the multitude,
leading the procession to the house of God,
with shouts of joy and thanksgiving
among the festive throng.

⁵ Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and ⁶ my God.
My ^c]">[c] soul is downcast within me;
therefore I will remember you
from the land of the Jordan,
the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.

⁷ Deep calls to deep
in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
have swept over me.

⁸ By day the LORD directs his love,
at night his song is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹ I say to God my Rock,
"Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
oppressed by the enemy?"

¹⁰ My bones suffer mortal agony
as my foes taunt me,
saying to me all day long,
"Where is your God?"

¹¹ Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.

Enjoy some great solitude time with God today!