The Lord Is Your Shade

The Lord is your shade at your right hand. — Psalm 121:5.

During my walks this summer I find myself searching for shade. There is nothing as comforting as shade on a hot sweltering day. I can only imagine how valuable shade was in the middle east over 2000 years ago. My shaded porch is my favorite place to sit and write.

Our psalmist reminds us that when your life becomes exhausting all we need to do is reach out for God’s comfort — God’s shade. It’s as if you dipped yourself in magic waters.

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Webb Hubbell, former Associate Attorney General of The United States, is an author and speaker. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller.