Things Too Big for Me
"My heart is not proud, Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. But I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content."
— Psalm 131:1-2
The image is precise and easy to miss. Not a nursing infant, calm because it is being fed. A weaned child, who has stopped screaming for the thing it wants and can simply sit with its mother. David describes a peace that comes after the wanting quiets, not after the wanting is satisfied. Three verses, the shortest kind of psalm, and one of the hardest to live.