Category Archives: psalms
All my longing is known to Thee
Another little gem of a comment on Psalm 38:9 by Amy Carmichael: Lord, all my longing is known to Thee, my sighing is not hidden from Thee. “Only a simple word. This afternoon, words would not come when I tried to pray, and this troubled me; and then it was as if He, Who is …
Look straight up and praise
I’m still delving deep into Amy Carmichael’s commentaries on the psalms. I can’t help but share the precious tidbits I keep finding. Here are her comments on that transition we find in the psalms from weeping to praise, that encouragement to look straight up and praise God with a song (when we least feel like …
Remembering
From Benedict XVI’s reflection on Psalm 136: [W]e can say: The liberation from Egypt, the time in the desert, the entrance into the Promised Land and then the other problems are very distant from us; they are not part of our history. But we must be attentive to the fundamental structure of this prayer [of …
“I will bless you, even if the car won’t start . . .”
A week ago I gave a talk at Witnesses to Hope, and part of what I spoke about was the importance of thanking the Lord in all circumstances. This past weekend one of the women who had attended that night, passed on to me a prayer that she found in the September issue of The …
Building up a memory for the good
As I have mentioned before, Pope Benedict is doing a marvelous series on the psalms during his Wednesday audiences. Here is part of his address yesterday on Psalm 126: Dear brothers and sisters, in our prayer we should look more often at how, in the events of our own lives, the Lord has protected, guided …
How many are my foes!
How many of you are saying (shouting) that phrase right now in your lives? “How many are my foes!” Well, you are in good company. David began Psalm 3 with those very words. Three times he uses the word “many” in reference to those who were attacking him . . . I think I mentioned …
He knows
Ps 103.14 For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. Job 23.10 He knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold. “Perhaps those words, He knows, are meant for you today because God has allowed you some special trial of faith. The love …
The dry places
Ps 105.41 He opened the rock, and water gushed forth; it flowed through the desert like a river. Have any of us any dry places? They may be out of sight of even loving eyes. We may be ashamed to think there are such places when we have so much to fill our lives with …
But how can we be happy?
Did some of you stumble on yesterday’s post: Every day? Perhaps this from Amy Carmichael will help you, commenting on Ps 9.1-2: I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will tell of all thy wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in thee, I will sing praise to thy …
Every day
Still working through Amy Carmichael’s commentaries on various psalms. I was struck by her words about Ps 145.2: Every day will I bless Thee; and I will praise Thy Name for ever and ever. She writes: “Every day—that means this day. On some days it is much easier to bless the Lord and praise Him …
