Psalm 16 in a CT Scan

I lay on my back in a Computerized Tomography scanning machine in a cancer hospital. The technician commanded over a speaker from another room, "Hold your breath. Do not move." To help myself comply with this command, I thought of the words contained in Psalm 16, which I had recently memorized: "Because the Lord is at my right hand, I will not be moved." Having a secret internal joke like that helps me to get through the anxiety of these daunting procedures.

Later that day I looked back over Psalm 16 and noticed that it contains two references to right hands. One has God at my right hand; the other has me at His. I pondered what kind of posture that is -- two persons engaged right hand to right hand. You know what it is? A High Five! Or, it could be a hand shake, or arm wrestling. God welcomes us in all three of those modes of relating to Him.