How Good...

...and pleasant it is when brothers dwell together in unity! It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes! It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
-Psalm 133

This was the Psalm of the day for the seventh Sunday of Easter. Short, simple, good.

This Psalm was the 'floor verse' of Second Kohn the three years that I lived on Second Kohn at Concordia University, River Forest (now called Concordia University Chicago. It will always be CURF to me!) Kohn was a dormitory and I lived on the second floor with a tremendous group of young men. I'd like to believe it was a unique floor, given the number of campus 'leaders' who lived there.

The treasurer of the Student Government lived on the floor. I served as VP and President of the Student Government. One brother was a 'lieutenant' in campus security. One brother was a captain on our football team. A few played in the Wind Symphony, a number of us sang in the Kapelle. There were business students, teacher ed students, music ed students, pre-sem students, and liberal arts students. It was a typical mix of the student population yet we did consider ourselves unique.

We did dwell in unity. We have continued to do so. We stood up for each other in our weddings, attended baptisms of our children, and continue to turn to each other for counsel and advice.

It was good to chant this Psalm on Sunday. I needed to hear of God's goodness in the past and to reflect on the blessing of life today in Christ, and of God's command of life forevermore.