The Psalms are community prayers. They help us recognize that indeed the individual living across the street, across town, across the world is a fellow human. When we are in our rooms, and our minds are wondering during times that we want to spend with God, paying close attention to what a Psalm is saying, is a very reliable avenue to inviting God's Spirit into our world. Psalm 34 is part of Saturday Midday Prayer in the unceasing, public prayer of the Christian Church. Below is a song based on it:
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Prayer and the Psalms
Classifying the Psalms is messy business; but this messiness also gives us insight into the nature of human prayer: it can be messy, too. For example, we may be attempting to sit still in our rooms, and all the while our minds are racing about an impatient reaction on seeing the lines of people at the grocery store, or noticing how long we have been waiting at the doctors office.
The Psalms are community prayers. They help us recognize that indeed the individual living across the street, across town, across the world is a fellow human. When we are in our rooms, and our minds are wondering during times that we want to spend with God, paying close attention to what a Psalm is saying, is a very reliable avenue to inviting God's Spirit into our world. Psalm 34 is part of Saturday Midday Prayer in the unceasing, public prayer of the Christian Church. Below is a song based on it:
The Psalms are community prayers. They help us recognize that indeed the individual living across the street, across town, across the world is a fellow human. When we are in our rooms, and our minds are wondering during times that we want to spend with God, paying close attention to what a Psalm is saying, is a very reliable avenue to inviting God's Spirit into our world. Psalm 34 is part of Saturday Midday Prayer in the unceasing, public prayer of the Christian Church. Below is a song based on it:
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