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Psalm 3—Give us the shelter of your strange light.
My enemies are a storm of seas. They are snapping teeth, an endless, Unkillable, unloveable, unlistening night. I stumble and they laugh. I tuck tail…
Nov 3, 2025
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Psalm 32—Lives I thought I’d lost honeycombed and hunched down like winter bees eating my heart's honey.
Innocence is a better world, but I Can hardly imagine the Lord keeps No count against me. I was bent double over My riddle days, wracked and walking The…
Oct 28, 2025
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Psalm 23—When I meet the shadow falling between the way I wanted and the way I went—I will fear no evil.
The Lord is my shepherd. With him, I lack nothing. He guides me in the last way left— Farthest round and the first home. He walks me to the river And…
Oct 21, 2025
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Psalm 22—God, why have you left me here? I would have traded anything For a glimpse of you.
God, why have you left me here? I would have traded anything For a glimpse of you. Slow syllables that never resolve to words Growl out of me, but no…
Oct 15, 2025
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Psalm 51—If your love is as true as you say, forget the rest.
Lord, relent.
Oct 4, 2025
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Psalm 34—I did not know light could ring, nor faith stretch true as a plucked string.
Lord, there is so much to say. I open my mouth and find your praise in it. My life is your boast. May those who are cast off Take comfort and…
Sep 28, 2025
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Psalm 19 Podcast—If you would have light and heat, why are you not more in the sunshine?
The heavens declare the glory of God.
Sep 22, 2025
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Psalm 64—Lord, it is only morning and my needs are already stacked in a long, desperate line.
Lord, it is only morning And my needs are already stacked In a long, desperate line.
Sep 17, 2025
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Psalm 40—Pierce me straight through, and scrawl your lines on the paper walls of my living heart.
Sep 12, 2025
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Psalm 28—You are there when the grace gathers around the table at dinner, in the hallowed halls of the real world.
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