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The psalms are the prayers God gave His people to pray back to Him. They teach us to praise, to confess, to lament, to be still, and to ask. This walk moves through those movements in order, so the whole range of prayer comes to live in you.
This Path is part of the house. One year opens it, with every other Path.
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
Psalm 1:1–2BSB
The Words, in order
- Psalm 1:1–2The doorway to the Psalter: delight in the Word, day and night.
- Psalm 23:1Trust, in the vocation David knew best.
- Psalm 27:1Two questions that do the work of an argument against fear.
- Psalm 46:1Refuge when the earth gives way.
- Psalm 46:10Then God speaks: be still.
- Psalm 51:10Confession that asks to be made new, not improved.
- Psalm 42:11Lament that preaches to its own soul.
- Psalm 121:1–2Looking up on the climb.
- Psalm 100:4–5The way in is thanksgiving.
- Psalm 119:11The Word treasured within.
- Psalm 139:23–24End by inviting the searching you began by delighting in.