The most contentious election in recent history in the most strange year of our lifetimes. Where are we headed and where is it all going? Thoughts of a "wayfaring stranger traveling through this world of woe."

From my current waypoint on this Life journey, I find David's song is less about an actual battle than it is about feelings of loss, defeat, and despair. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 60. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

Just last night as we lay in bed I expressed to Wendy that all it takes is for me to glance at any social media app right now and feel misunderstood, slandered, belittled, and dishonored. I have to believe I'm not alone in that. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 59. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com

Along this life journey, I've come to acknowledge that I can't avoid anger. Even Jesus got righteously angry, and Paul told the followers of Jesus in Ephesus not that anger is wrong or bad, but what we do with it. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 58. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

I find in the story of Saul and David a contrast of attitudes that speaks to the divergent paths of thought and emotion I can take today. In David's song, I find an example for me to contemplate and to emulate. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 57. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

Along life's journey, I've found fear to be a debilitating emotion and acting out of fear to be spiritually counter-productive. I've observed that I can't really walk in faith and fear at the same time. They cancel each other out. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 56. Text version can always be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

Parenting is one of the grand adventures of this life journey. It has produced the greatest of joys and the deepest of sorrows. It has humbled me to my core, and has equipped Lady Sophia with some of the most powerful practicums for teaching me wisdom. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 55. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

Along this life journey, I also encounter moments when I feel pinned down by circumstances stacked against me. There are times when I feel like I'm stumbling around with the darkness closing in. I have flashes when my prayer feels like Princess Leia's hologram. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 54. Text version can be found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.

David wrote Psalm 14 to mean one thing during his life and his generation, but a subsequent generation took the same song, the same lyrics, and made it about another thing. A chapter-a-day podcast from Psalm 54. Text version can found and shared at tomvanderwell.com.