Faith at Home

Can you feel the tumult roaring within you?

From within Psalm 65, we listen for the words of the Divine Family for our lives today. For us, we hear the call to receive forgiveness and the Divine’s work to silence the tumult.

What do you notice as you listen along today?

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Psalm 64 reassures us that we can carry our true feelings to the Divine and find that we are understood to our very depths. When we can speak truth and reveal our true selves to the Divine, we reduce suffering and trauma for ourselves and others.

What do you notice as you listen to Psalm 64 today? What invitation grows out of these words for you today?

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Sometimes when we listen to the Psalms they create questions in us. Do I believe what the composer of these prayer poems believed? Do I want to live a life of gratitude or would I rather experience life as a dry and weary land?

Psalm 63 is another practical tool in workshop of relationship with the Divine Family. It can help us to experience prayer as a conversation instead of a monologue.

What do you notice as you listen today?

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You might be feeling the need for a refuge. Psalm after Psalm expresses big feelings that don’t easily melt away. When held in the loving, compassionate presence of the Divine, those feelings don’t need to be run from. Instead we can let them be flags to us that help us to breathe in the moment and wait through the hard times.

We invite you to join with us for a short Listening Practice using Psalm 62 today. We are loved. We are blessed and we can be at home, wherever we happen to be in the world.

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You might be feeling the need for a refuge.

Psalm after Psalm expresses big feelings that don’t easily melt away. When held in the loving, compassionate presence of the Divine, those feelings don’t need to be run from.

Instead we can let them be flags to us that help us to breathe in the moment and wait through the hard times.

We invite you to join with us for a short Listening Practice using Psalm 62 today.

We are loved. We are blessed and we can be at home, wherever we happen to be in the world.

Dear brave ones navigating the reality of human life,

There are a thousand things you could do with your day today. Thank you for joining us for a few moments to call for refuge from the storms of life. If you are feeling fluster-y or needing a good word to invite you forward, join us today as we listen to Psalm 61.

The Divine Family is a refuge. We can make our home in them. And though the world continues to spin and shift, we can find calm and peace and safe space to share our truest selves when we come home to the Divine Family.

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What is the story that you live by?

As we sit with Psalm 60, the invitation to rewrite the story of our lives emerges from our listening. We can stand under the Banner of the Divine Family and seek the Divine’s protection and ask for them to rescue us.

The Divine Family loves us. The Divine Family has provided for us. The Divine Family is with us, even in the midst of suffering.

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Are you looking for a place of refuge in the middle of the storms of life?

Psalm 59 might provide you with a refuge or with a call to be roused or with an invitation to remember. Join us as we listen to the Divine Family as we listen to this Psalm and to one another in conversation.

What do you hear as you listen today? How does it connect to your everyday experience?

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We can cry out with anger, frustration, disappointment, sadness and pain. When we express those feelings in our relationship with the Divine, we are creating a Prayer of Lament.

Does a Lament express your feelings at the moment?

As we listen to the Divine Family and to our truest selves using Psalm 58, we are deep into a cycle of Psalms that are Psalms of Lament. Sometimes our feelings mirror the feeling in the Psalm we are listening with. Sometimes our feelings are in contrast to the feelings in the Psalm. Still we listen for how the Divine will speak to us and invite us.

What do you notice as you listen to your body, your emotions, your spirit and the Divine today?Would you like to write your own Prayer of Lament today?

Thank you for taking time to listen along with us today! If you are interested in Spiritual Direction that carries this conversation further, please schedule a complementary Listening Conversation through https://jenniferholtslander.com/schedule-an-appointment.

Here’s a rhetorical question: can anyone live a whole lifetime without experiencing trouble?

Rhetorical questions have an expected answer. The expected answer for this question is “NO!” In each of our lives we feel pain, sorrow and fear. Psalm 57 allows us to attend to those emotions and to RUN into the refuge that can be created in the midst of challenging times.

The Divine Family is our refuge. The troubling things still exist, but in the safety of relationship we can rest, recharge and re-enter our everyday lives receiving forgiveness, compassion and kindness. This is mercy in challenging days.

Open ended questions can be like a key that unlocks a door. As we listen to ourselves and to the Divine Family through Psalms, open ended questions help us in our listening.

What words or phrases stand out to you through Psalm 57? What do you hear the Divine Family invite you to through this Psalm?

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