(Artwork: Kim Joon-kwon, Mountain Rhyme-0901,2009, http://www.mu-um.com/?mid=02&act=dtl&idx=29637)

Every Wednesday we invite you to Pause and Pray with us. Today’s Pause & Pray is written/curated by Jun Eun Son.

Pray:

I do not ask to walk smooth paths

Nor bear an easy load.

I pray for strength and fortitude

To climb the rock-strewn road.

Give me such courage I can scale

The hardest peaks alone,

And transform every stumbling block

Into a stepping stone. (Source:  Gail Brook Burket, United States)

Meditate:

Psalm 121:1-2I lift up my eyes to the hills— from where will my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Listen:

To the hills I lift mine eyes; Whence shall help for me arise
Marcus M. Wells (1858)
https://hymnary.org/hymn/TPH2018/121B