Today's Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 74 verse 19:
"Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts."
Today's Daily Lesson is actually a prayer of petition made to God on behalf of the poor caught so easily in the maw of destruction -- specifically, the poor of Israel whose homeland was wrecked and whose people were displaced.
But it might also be a word of exhortation to those at or near their breaking point and ready lash out angrily and destructively themselves: "Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts."
We cannot always control what happens to us; but we can control how we respond. Each of us has a gentle and beautiful dove inside us; it is our soul. There are those in the world that would like very much to get its hands on the dove and crush it. But the dove is in our hands; and no one can take it. It is ours to hold and to protect from the wild beasts of this world.
The dove is in our hands. We hold her gently and delicately. And we let no one else get their hands on her.
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