Longing for Home
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. |
| 0:05.0 | May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth. Psalm 137, 5 and 6. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:16.0 | Longing for Home was written by Matt Lucas and read by Wes Ward. |
| 0:22.6 | Psalm 137 verses 1 through 6. |
| 0:26.5 | By the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. |
| 0:32.0 | There on the poplars we hung our harps. |
| 0:34.9 | For there our captors asked us for songs. Our tormentors demanded songs of joy. |
| 0:41.6 | They said, sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a |
| 0:48.7 | foreign land? If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. |
| 0:54.6 | May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider |
| 1:00.1 | Jerusalem my highest joy. |
| 1:05.4 | Longing for Home, written by Matt Lucas. |
| 1:10.2 | Ethel and Ed live in the high desert area of the Rocky Mountains. |
| 1:14.8 | As our family visited them on their ranch filled with memorabilia, |
| 1:18.9 | the conversation turned to childhood stories of riding horses on the grasslands of North Dakota |
| 1:24.8 | and herding cattle in Montana. |
| 1:29.9 | Thereon in years now, and I could hear in their voices a longing for home. Psalm 137 captures a similar emotion. The Israelites had been |
| 1:39.0 | forced into captivity and longed for home. By the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept, they said. There, our captors asked us |
| 1:48.5 | for songs, prompting the Israelites to ask, how can we sing the songs of the Lord while in a foreign |
| 1:55.7 | land? The longing to return from exile is a common theme throughout the Old Testament prophets. |
| 2:02.7 | Eventually, the Israelites did return. |
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