Solitary Thanksgiving Joy
We all know the holidays this year are fraught. I live on the opposite side of the country from my family, so I don’t usually get to indulge in our…
Category: Devotional Thoughts
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Noticing
On Sunday, I received a wonderful gift. I’d had kind of a grumpy week. I was scheduled to work six days in a row. (I’ll get a 3-day weekend this…
Contentment vs. Asking with Shameless Audacity
(Picture from June 1, 2013.) I’m on my annual Springtime personal spiritual retreat this week. Monday it began with me thinking about how happy my life is and how fulfilling…
Wisdom Psalms
I’m doing a project where I’m going over different types of Psalms I learned about in Psalms class when I was a student at Biola University more than thirty years…
Remembering God’s Faithfulness
Back in the 1980s when I was a student at Biola University, I took an amazing class on the Psalms taught by Dr. Edward Curtis. He taught us about the…
Praying in Crazy Times
During this pandemic, I’ve heard people say they don’t even know how to pray. I’m thinking about the Psalms lately as I think about praying. I do believe there are…
A Psalm from the Scatterbrained
I’m feeling scatterbrained this week. I’m trying to focus and failing. Tonight I was trying to get to working on my Psalms book again and just going nowhere. That’s when…
Do Try This At Home!
I got some wonderful responses to yesterday’s Lament for Covid-19. People said it touched them. But that wasn’t what I was going for. What I wanted was for people to…
A Lament for Covid-19
I’ve been thinking for a long time about praying like the Psalmists, using the forms of Hebrew poetry to pray. The Lament is the most common form in the Psalms,…
God’s Guidance
Recently, the pastors at my church did a short sermon series on God’s Will. They made some wonderful points, but didn’t talk much about how these things fit with God’s…