Faith at Home

As we listen to the second section of Psalm 78 (verses 17-31), we are paying attention for the voice of the Divine Family for our everyday lives. This Psalm traces the prayer-poet’s understanding of the Divine at work in the lives of the people around them. Through these ancient words, we hear insight into our day by day experiences. Through these ancient words, we hear and invitation.

What do you notice as you listen along with us?

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How does your experience of everyday faith connect you to your physical and spiritual ancestors? How might your everyday faith experience impact your physical or spiritual descendants?

The beginning of Psalm 78 stirs up images of telling the story of the Divine Family’s work in our lives and invites us to pass that story on to those might want to share in the experience and be part of the spiritual family. What an invitation!

What does the Life-Giving Spirit bring to your attention as you listen along with us to Psalm 78:1-16? Share your moments of question or insight with us at jenniferholtslander.com, on Instagram at @jenniferholtslander, or on Facebook at Holtslander & Associates.

Do you ever feel like complaining? Through Psalm 77, we hear the writer of this ancient prayer poem talk about their own experiences, their own feelings. This is honest stuff. As we listen to our own internal monologue, and carry it in to a back and forth with the Divine Family and with a safe companion, we can have a conversation. What captures your attention as you listen with Psalm 77?

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Psalm 76 raises some interesting thoughts and feelings from our own lives. Listening Practice helps us to slow down, to listen deeply to our own lives and to the leading of the Life-Giving Spirit in our day to day lives. As you listen you might notice brightness, or anger, or a story from your own life. From this awareness, we can listen for an invitation for our experience.

Joining the Faith at Home Listening Practice today, what comes to your awareness?

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Today we are crying out for the Divine to exalt those who have been downtrodden for so long.

Psalm 75 joins with the outpourings of our hearts and reminds us that when we dissolve in fear, the Divine Family will be there. When those who have been pushed down, are finally raised up, the Divine Family will be there. And in all the moments in between, we can continually tell the story of what the Divine has done.

As you practice listening with the Faith at Home podcast today, what do you notice?

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As we pause to practice listening to the Divine and to our lives, we listen using Psalm 74. We notice that the Divine accepts our feelings as they are and we feel invited to keep on being in ongoing relationship.

What do you notice as you listen along today?

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The author of Psalm 73 felt big emotions. They turned in conversation toward the Divine Family. When we carry our emotions into conversation in a safe space, dialogue can help what needs to be healed come out into the light.

Envy. Jealousy. Hatred. Rage. Discontent. Doubt. Disappointment. Uncertainty. These feelings all belong and when engaged from the safe space of community and dialogue they can fuel our prayer and our spiritual health. As we listen together to Psalm 73 and enter conversation, through the dialogue we can hear the voice of the Life-Giving Spirit, the voice of the Divine Family. The Divine wants to speak to us in ways that we can understand and live. The volume on the internal voice that says, “I never hear God speak to me,” can be turned down if we listen together.

Through the process, we can be empowered to live out the changes that we are invited into by the Life-Giving Spirit’s power and comfort. Our world needs people who are living from a place of spiritual health because the dis-ease around us is threatening.

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Psalm 72 presents an interesting Listening Practice challenge.

It’s a prayer-poem written in praise of the king of a small, tribal nation three centuries ago.

And yet, through this prayer-poem we can listen for voice of the Divine and for what might speak to us from our own lives. Through the images of nature, we hear the Divine Family speak to us and we are encouraged to look beyond ourselves toward the abundance of God. We also hear an encouragement to record our stories and prayers.

What do you notice as you listen with us to Psalm 72?

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The last half of Psalm 71 takes us into listening as we wait, as we thank the Divine, as we experience trouble, and as we expect the Divine to be with us.

One of the brilliant things about a Listening Practice is that the very same process might speak very differently to you than it does to us. That’s because the Divine Family loves each individually and wants to speak to us in our own lives, in our own language and in our own circumstances.

Take a few moments to share a bit a conversation with someone you trust as you listen to the Divine at work in you today. Perhaps you’d like to write in your own Listening Book or contact Jennifer or Reade for some Spiritual Conversation.

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Peace can come to our deepest selves by entering into prayer practices that help us to look back our births and frame (or re-frame) ourselves as being welcomed by the Divine Family.

Peace can come to our deepest beings by looking forward to getting closer to dying, and seeing the Divine present there as well, offering us love and welcome as we transition from this life.

Peace can come to these days, the ones in the middle, as well.

As you practice listening along with us, together we can hear God speak in words, ideas, images, body sensation and emotion. This Listening Practice using Psalm 71:1-12 could be one step along your pathway towards experiencing peace and the presence of the Divine Family in your everyday life.

Thanks for being with us today.