Hands over my eyes, I count loudly, “One, two, three….” My heart speeds up as I get closer to twenty, anticipating the fun of finding my hidden friends. “Twenty! Ready or not, here I come!” And, off I run, feeling the summer breeze on my face, smelling the freshly cut grass, grinning wide for allContinueContinue reading “Playing Psalms: Games and Goodness — Hide and Seek”
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Playing Psalms: Games and Goodness — An Invitation
I don’t think there’s ever been another New Year so highly anticipated by the masses of our lifetime as 2021. When we consider all the challenges of the past year, we are more than eager for a new beginning. It’s after a year like 2020, we wonder — from where does our hope come? PsalmContinueContinue reading “Playing Psalms: Games and Goodness — An Invitation”
Playing Psalms — An Advent Series, The Epilogue
The “Hallelujah Chorus” still thrumming in our ears and hearts, we collectively wonder if that’s it. It always seems to happen — we wait and watch for Christ’s coming each year, then all at once Christmas is over. That same feeling of loss settles over us now. We want more. That’s when we realize theContinueContinue reading “Playing Psalms — An Advent Series, The Epilogue”
Playing Psalms — An Advent Series, Act 4
As the curtains rise, so do our hopes! It’s time for Act Four of Playing Psalms. Our hearts, in equal measure, eagerly anticipate what comes next and despair of this production’s conclusion. Because we’ve already peeked at our playbill, we know that this Act will include parts of Royal Psalm 89. Act Four, Scene OneContinueContinue reading “Playing Psalms — An Advent Series, Act 4”
Playing Psalms — An Advent Series, Act 3
The lights flicker, indicating the end of intermission. Picking up our playbill, we note that Act 3 of Playing Psalms will portray Psalm 110. Interestingly, the playbill goes on to explain that Psalm 110 is the most quoted Psalm in all of the New Testament. By a lot. We wonder why that would be, butContinueContinue reading “Playing Psalms — An Advent Series, Act 3”
Beyond
As I drove north toward Oklahoma, my shoulders tense and mind whirring, I turned on some of my favorite Christmas songs that evoked worship and praise. And sang as loud as I could. By the time I got where I was going, my worries had subsided and my focus was back on Jesus. Yes, my circumstancesContinueContinue reading “Beyond”
Playing Psalms — An Advent Series, Act 2
The brief intermission over, we’re ready to get back to Playing Psalms. We settle in our seats, perhaps a little less eager than we were before the start of the show because we’re realizing this Christmas production isn’t all about snowflakes and sugar plums. It’s much more about the King who came to save HisContinueContinue reading “Playing Psalms — An Advent Series, Act 2”
Present
Trust — my word for 2020 — has proven to be just what I needed. Crazy how one five-letter word can become a sustaining anchor. A rock to cling to when life crumbles and shakes and looks nothing like you expected. Early in the year, I dug into what it looks like to fully trustContinueContinue reading “Present”
Playing Psalms — An Advent Series, Act 1
Today, the world kicks-off Advent, the season of preparation leading up to Christmas, and we’re taking part by having some fun Playing Psalms together. The particular Psalms that we’ll be playing in this series are the Royal ones that not only make use of mental images of monarchs but move us toward Messiah. I readContinueContinue reading “Playing Psalms — An Advent Series, Act 1”
Playing Psalms — An Advent Series, The Prologue
As I listen to Lauren Daigle croon, “Oh, what fun it is to ride! Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh,” I feel an excitement tapping itself into being within me. I want to have fun! Yes, I do! Believe it or not, I think we can have someContinueContinue reading “Playing Psalms — An Advent Series, The Prologue”