Hi Andy! I loved your poem! Meditating on this psalm and seeing the stories you have read in books about evil and it’s nature helps to more deeply understand this poem. So often we cry out for the arm of the Lord to just crush the evil around, it is hard but true, and we wait and ask for patience until the Day of the Lord.
Hi Andy! I've been longing to see and understand the psalms more clearly! Let me know how to financially help your operation! I'm good with sending a check in the mail, too. I tried to get an old fashioned paper copy but am pushed to learn more technology, alas, yet again! I've been listening to NKJV Psalms being read, and at the longing for payback of the wicked, I wonder how to see that. In Revelation I know there's a rejoicing in it, too. I'll keep reading! I love your psalm richness and clarity so much! And yes, how the wicked leave their claw marks on our souls. I think I need to hate it more, as God does. Reading the psalm with all your beautiful teaching on chaos waters and dragons and rivers and gardens and mountains made it so so thick, rich, and good! Thank you!
I’m really excited about the more extensive passage notes, tho I’ll be savoring them a different day.
What I’m really finding myself drawn to in the psalm rendition is the vividness of the story parts -- the enemy “swallowing down all the goodness” and the axes breaking down the garden. The temple really comes to life in its demise. I’m also drawn even more to the descriptions of the things the psalmist is remembering that God did in the past. I think sometimes it’s easier for the current difficulties to be more vivid than the past acts of God -- for me at least! This rendition really captures the vividness of both, even though the evil is surrounding the goodness at the center of the psalm (literally).
Yups. Totally channeling Shel Silverstein there! And I can see the Stephen King influence, too (even tho I’m not a SK fan personally). The poem rings too true for comfort in so many ways. Not sure which phrase I’d grab for a title, but the image of putting a chair over what we don’t know how to explain -- that’s the image that really haunts me from this poem.
Hi Andy! I loved your poem! Meditating on this psalm and seeing the stories you have read in books about evil and it’s nature helps to more deeply understand this poem. So often we cry out for the arm of the Lord to just crush the evil around, it is hard but true, and we wait and ask for patience until the Day of the Lord.
Hi Andy! I've been longing to see and understand the psalms more clearly! Let me know how to financially help your operation! I'm good with sending a check in the mail, too. I tried to get an old fashioned paper copy but am pushed to learn more technology, alas, yet again! I've been listening to NKJV Psalms being read, and at the longing for payback of the wicked, I wonder how to see that. In Revelation I know there's a rejoicing in it, too. I'll keep reading! I love your psalm richness and clarity so much! And yes, how the wicked leave their claw marks on our souls. I think I need to hate it more, as God does. Reading the psalm with all your beautiful teaching on chaos waters and dragons and rivers and gardens and mountains made it so so thick, rich, and good! Thank you!
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I’m really excited about the more extensive passage notes, tho I’ll be savoring them a different day.
What I’m really finding myself drawn to in the psalm rendition is the vividness of the story parts -- the enemy “swallowing down all the goodness” and the axes breaking down the garden. The temple really comes to life in its demise. I’m also drawn even more to the descriptions of the things the psalmist is remembering that God did in the past. I think sometimes it’s easier for the current difficulties to be more vivid than the past acts of God -- for me at least! This rendition really captures the vividness of both, even though the evil is surrounding the goodness at the center of the psalm (literally).
Yups. Totally channeling Shel Silverstein there! And I can see the Stephen King influence, too (even tho I’m not a SK fan personally). The poem rings too true for comfort in so many ways. Not sure which phrase I’d grab for a title, but the image of putting a chair over what we don’t know how to explain -- that’s the image that really haunts me from this poem.