As a Weaned Child

The Storm

David names a specific, striking image here, a weaned child, worth noticing precisely, not an unweaned infant still crying urgently for immediate need, but a weaned child, genuinely quieted, content simply to rest in his mother’s presence, without this same urgent, demanding crying for immediate satisfaction.

This is worth examining against however much your own prayer has resembled the unweaned infant’s own urgent crying, demanding immediate resolution, rather than this psalm’s own described alternative, genuine quieting, content simply to rest in God’s presence, trusting without this same urgent, anxious demanding.

Notice quieted myself, active language, this is not natural, automatic contentment but something David himself deliberately, actively practiced, worth holding as genuine, ongoing discipline, not a permanent state achieved once but a practice returned to, deliberately, the way weaning itself is a genuine, gradual process.

Whatever urgent, demanding crying currently characterizes your own prayer, practice today David’s own deliberate quieting, not suppressing genuine need entirely, but moving toward this described, weaned contentment, resting simply in God’s own presence, trusting without this same urgent, anxious demand for immediate resolution.