Back to the psalms… Please recall that I’m not going to comment on all of them. That said, there are a few I won’t miss starting with today’s: Psalm 16.

I can’t read verse six without thinking of Sam and Shirley Hershey:

The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. (Psalm 16.6, NIV

“The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places”? Sam and Shirley lost one son very early; another was killed on a California freeway and was a fine young man. The third was profoundly disabled. He died September 2023 at age 41, and my blog Not an Interruption tells their story. Sam ended a presentation on life lessons with Psalm 16.6.

And I can’t read verse 11 without thinking of my wife, June. It’s one of her favorite verses:

You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. (Psalm 16.11, NKJV)

What do we “get” for following Jesus?

Pleasant places (even when life is hard)…pleasures forevermore