Psalm 1. 'With the Harp I Will Solve My Problem' - Daily Meditations on the Psalms
Channel: Fr_Tristan_Cranfield
Date: 21/03/2020

I am a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Arundel & Brighton. 'With the Harp I Will Solve My Problem' is a daily series that I am running during the coronavirus lockdown here in Eastbourne, England. While our churches are closed, I hope these reflections may help parishioners to pray at home with the psalms: the songbook of the Church - God's own Word in which God praises Himself. Here, in the Word, each day, we will praise, lament, give thanks, and ask for mercy.

Today we begin with Psalm 1:
"Happy indeed is the man
Who follows not the counsel of the wicked,
Nor lingers in the way of sinners
Nor sits in the company of scorners,
But whose delight is the law of the Lord
And who ponders his law day and night.

He is like a tree that is planted beside the flowing waters,
That yields its fruit in due season
And whose leaves shall never fad;
And all that he does shall prosper.
Not so are the wicked, not so!

For they like winnowed chaff
Shall be driven away by the wind.
When the wicked are judged they shall not stand,
Nor find room among those who are just;
For the Lord guards the way of the just,
But the way of the wicked leads to doom."