as Jacob and the psalmist knew, but in all such experiences the center and source is God’s presence “with” us. The psalm helps make Jacob’s experience available to all who pray it, and this must be the reason it has proved the most popular of all the psalms. To discover that God is “with” us is probably the most important discovery anyone can make, for, once made, it colors all of life’s experiences. So in the Bible, the little word “with,” when it links God and humans, is a powerful word. In the