Friday is for Heart Songs YEARNING FOR MORE Make room Lord Expand my heart Stretch my spirit Ignite my passion Energize my resolve To go anywhere Do anything Pay any price Endure any hardship Dismiss any ridicule For the glory of Your name For the spread of Your kingdom For the expression of Your mercy … More Yearning for More of an Infinite God is Serious Work
Friday is for Heart Songs When your heart is broken, when your hope is dim, when you feel forsaken, when fear has captured your heart, when his presence feels distant, Psalm 13 is good place to go. Poems for Psalms (Another addition to “The Poetry Project”) Suggested by Psalm 13 Where is the Welcoming Light? … More When God Doesn’t Listen
Sunday Afternoon Musings Part of “The Poetry Project” (Prayers for Psalm Readers) from January 4, 2010 Suggested by Psalm 19:7-14 Prove Your Words Solid Words. Laws. Testimonies. Precepts. Commandments. The fear of the Lord. and rules. More to be desired than gold? Sweeter than honey? Make it so Lord. Give me life. But first give … More Prove Your Word
Wednesday is for Prayer Two things to notice and reflect upon when reading/thinking about the psalms. One, the presence of lament—-whole Psalms and portions of many others are given over to lament. Two, the almost complete absence of lament in the songs of 21st century Christians. Maybe one of the reasons we are so weak … More A Morning Prayer of Confession
Weekend Musings Inside Psalm 119 and the Poetry Project (My son inspired me to keep working on a project I thought of a couple of years ago. The idea is to write a poem of personal reflection for each Psalm in the psalter. If you search on the word “Poetry” or “Poetry and Prayers” inside … More Affliction and the God Who Teaches
Friday is for Heart Songs Spoiler alert: Poetry at the end. Bear with me. I am still trying to get my life back on track after the loss of my mom. This blog is a repost from when I was just poking around and trying to learn how to format in WordPress. I had no … More Why Do You Hide Your Face?
Who Am I? Dietrich Bonhoeffer struggled with the battle we all fight. Are we who we think we are? Are we what others think we are (for good or ill)? Or are we something else that neither ourselves or others really know? Bonhoeffer put it this way in a poem from prison: Who am I? … More Probing Self-doubt and Trusting in the Grace of God
Friday is for Heart Songs [From the archives. May it draw your heart to the deepest riches of the cross and the gospel.] Suggested by a sermon by Charles H. Spurgeon onJeremiah 31:3 “With loving-kindness I have drawn thee.” (Sing to the tune of the Sovereign Grace version of “Before the Throne”) “I yield, I … More A Hymn to Cry Out to God
Heart Songs Read Psalm 62. “How our hearts long to trust in something, anything other than You Lord! It is so easy for us to run away, to trust in education, or technology, or friends, or persuasiveness, or hard work, or personality or reputation or books or human calculation. But it is You we must … More Psalm 62 and Trust Issues
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