I will sing a new song to you, my God.

Psalm 144, verse 9.

Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.

Our reading titled From the Deadly Sword was written by Tim Gustafson and read by Stephen

Tabor.

Psalm 144 verses 1 and 2 and verses 9 through 15 praise be to the Lord my rock who trains my hands for war my fingers for battle he is my loving

God and my fortress my stronghold and my deliverer,

my shield in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. And now picking up at verse 9.

I will sing a new song to you, my God, on the ten-string liar, I will make music to you, to the one who

gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword, deliver me,

rescue me from the hands of foreigners, whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful.

Then our sons and their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands,

by tens of thousands in our fields.

Our oxens will draw heavy loads.

There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets.

Blessed is the people of whom this is true.

Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.

From the deadly sword, written by Tim Gustafson.

Sabin Howard's remarkable sculpture, a soldier's journey, breathes with vitality and anguish.

38 bronze figures leaned forward across a 58-foot bas-relief that traces the life of a World

War I soldier. Completed in 2024, the panorama begins with a heart-rending goodbye to family, leads us through the naivation

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