Psalm 1: Riverside Prayer
After a lengthy hiatus, I am drawn back into the Book of Psalms, to mediate and to pray my way through this rich heritage. I am especially pulled by the psalms ...
Category: praying the psalms
Psalm 38: The bottom of the well
All my longings lie open before you, O LORD; my sighing is not hidden from you. (Psalm 38:9) Here, at the bottom of the well, there is an emptiness. When the la...
Psalm 32: Lead with a Look
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no u...
Psalm 5: The Multitude of Mercy
“But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: And in thy fear I will worship toward thy holy temple.” Psalm 5:7 When weariness and w...
Psalm 27: The One and Only “One Thing”
“One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the L...