Today's psalm reminds me of the very human reaction I tend to have whenever life doesn't turn out the way I planned. A chapter-a-day post from Psalm 89. Text version can always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

If you're an angst-filled teenager or a melancholy Enneagram Type Four, then you'll love wallowing in the gloom as the psalmist pens: "The Darkness is my closest friend." A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 88. The text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

This week on the Wayfarer Weekend (WW) podcast: The second-half of "Conversations with Life" with Matthew Burch. Sage, friend, therapist, and "one who leads people to the source," we will unpack how conversations with life keep us growing and moving to better places. 

The editors were metaphorically calling me as a reader to "center down" and come to God's presence in the midst of my distress. What I will find there, the song's final line tells me is God's "fountain" or "spring." A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 87. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

There are days when I have to be reminded, once again, to consider joy: Surrendering the circumstances of that day in order to reach further up and further in to take hold of it. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 86. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

In the quiet this morning, I find my heart ruminating once again on this difficult year. Like the writer of Psalm 85, I find myself having to consciously stop and listen "to what God the Lord, says." A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 85. The text version may be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

"One day in your courts" is not about me going to church on Sunday. For followers of Jesus, it is a spiritual pilgrimage of the heart to seek commune with God's Spirit within my heart, soul, and mind in each day, each hour, each moment. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 84. Text version can always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

On this Wayfarer Weekend podcast, we welcome Matthew Burch. As a therapist, consultant, and advisor, Matthew believes that everyone is having a conversation with life. We're going to unpack that thought over the next two Wayfarer Weekend podcasts.

The fact that I can't comprehend Asaph's realities leads me to extend him some grace as I try to wrap my head around the context of asking God to destroy my enemy. Which leaves me asking, "What am I supposed to take away from Psalm 83?" A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 83. The text version can be found and share at tomvanderwell.com.

The words of Asaph's song leave me sitting in the quiet this morning thinking about my conversations with family and friends earlier this year. I'm pondering some of the things that I have consciously done as a result, as well as those things that I have left undone. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 82. The text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.