Chlorofluorocarbons destroy the ozone layer. Garbage piles up all over, while toxic waste seeps into the underground water supply. No sooner do threats of war and violence diminish in one region of the globe, than new hostilities and tensions spring up elsewhere. AIDS continues to spread, virtually unabated. It seems as if the future presents great mountain-like obstacles.
Questions pop up.
And we wonder how to react. I lift up my eyes to the hills. The fears and apprehensions that we experience are precisely the same as those felt by the writer of Psalm 121. Hills in Palestine were rather majestic looking, beautiful from a distance, and filled with wonderful plant and animal life for those who came close. Hills were also a place where danger lurked.