When I Shall Go To Contemplate The Face Of The LORD?

Hi! and happy good first day of the week and the 29th day of February to all of us, GUYS.  Today's "food for the soul":

THE GOOD NEWS (29 February 2016)

"As a deer longs for flowing streams,

so my soul longs for YOU, O GOD.

Then will I go to the altar of GOD,

to GOD, my gladness and delight.

I will praise YOU with the lyre and harp,

O GOD, my GOD."

- Psalm 42:2, 43:4

(An exiled Levite, a priest remembers with what joy he went in the past on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.  We, too, are exiles here below, as long as we do not see the face of GOD.  It is well that we are not too quickly satisfied with a few beautiful ceremonies.

Here we have the fervent prayer that the believer - immersed in adversity - addressed to GOD in order not to waver in his faith.

A fervent call to GOD and cries of hope are features of this psalm, like a refrain repeated three times.

Who among us would not be able to personalize this psalm?  Human progress, be it ever so great and salutary, brings new problems and stirs up in us new desires.  We are at times mindful that we have been created for something greater: nothing of that fully gratifies us, and death is always at the end.  How can we revive those moments when we knew true joy?)