Benefit #2

Here we go again:

1 Praise the LORD, O my soul;


all my inmost being, praise his holy name.

2 Praise the LORD, O my soul,

and forget not all his benefits-

Benefit #2:
4 who redeems your life from the pit



and crowns you with love and compassion,
 
I am not certain that the "pit" alluded to here specifically means "hell". 
 
However...
 
I am absolutely certain that we all have fallen into "pits" in our lifetimes and have needed  a Redeemer.
 
So....
 
Not only are we dragged up from a pit....which is amazing enough... we are then crowned (like a King) with love and compassion.  I am not sure what this means exactly. To be crowned with love and compassion?  As I think about its impact on me in 2009 I feel comforted and buoyed to be more than I have been.
 
jb