Posts tagged Psalms
Tranquille.
In the New Yorker, James Wood calls Psalms “the noisiest book of the Bible,”
the very book that dramatizes, again and again, the gap between our language and the indescribable God, between our certainty that God is with us and our anxiety that he has abandoned us, between his cosmic proportions and our comic littleness.
Desert Storm: Understanding the capricious God of the Psalms
All your breakers and waves have surged over me.
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Spill.
Long days. Long days.
I remain confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the Lord
in the land of the living.. . .
The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord is enthroned as King forever. The Lord gives strength to his people;
the Lord blesses his people with peace.