If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me, and the light around me turn to night,” Darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day; darkness and light to you are both alike. Psalm… Continue reading

For behold, you look for truth deep within me, and will make me understand wisdom secretly. Psalm 51:7 “I’ll be honest shortly,” I text my spouse. To which he replies that this is a very funny autocorrect. What I meant… Continue reading

Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgivingand make good your vows to the Most High.Psalm 50:14 Today is the day my equanimity goes out the window. I’m pretty sure this happens every Advent, yet somehow I have managed to forget… Continue reading

This is my comfort in my trouble,that your promise gives me life.Psalm 119:50 I pull my sweater more tightly around me to ward off the chill. Maybe if I wasn’t sitting right next to the window, I’d feel warmer. But… Continue reading

This God is our God for ever and ever,and shall be our guide for evermore.Psalm 48:13 I see the sliver of the moon shining in the dark winter night. And when I look closer, I can see the orb itself… Continue reading

If we have forgotten the Name of our God,or stretched out our hands to some strange god,Will not God find it out?for God knows the secrets of the heart.Psalm 44:20-21 I watch the beginning of the sunrise cast a glow… Continue reading

Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul?and why are you so disquieted within me?Psalm 42:6 The intricacy of bare trees never ceases to fascinate me. The limbs that reach toward the sky, each one with its own… Continue reading

You have not shut me up in the power of the enemy;you have set my feet in an open place.Psalm 31:8 In the late afternoon, I still have one work task to complete before I can call it a day.… Continue reading

For in you, O י ה ו ה, have I fixed my hope;you will answer me, O Lord my God.Psalm 38:15 Everything around me seems half done. I’m halfway through a stack of bills, the tree is halfway up, and… Continue reading