PSALM 131 draws on the image of a mother's prayer of trust while comforting her child. It is as if we hear the quiet voice of a woman expressing to God her sense of utter dependence and humility before Him. As her child has returned repeatedly to her bosom for nurture, reassurance and tranquility, she returns to live fully in the security and mystery of God. She dares to consider and to understand the simplicity and complexity of God's impossibilities, things too great and too marvelous for human comprehension. Cautiously, she quiets herself.

This trusting mother, just like Job, declares that some things cannot be known. Despite the limits of our understanding God and His creation, it is enough for us to trust God with child likeness and quiet resolve.