Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good;
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for his loving kindness endures forever.
2 Give thanks to the God of gods;
for his loving kindness endures forever.
3 …https://www.thefuelcast.com/library/2025-05-5-listening-r25
1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
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when we remembered Zion.
2 There on the poplars
…Yahweh, you have searched me,
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and you know me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up.
You perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
5 You hem me in behind and before.
You laid your hand on me.
6 …
The wonderful art of knitting (Psalm 139:6-14)Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
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too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand…Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light around me become night …
the darkness and light are both alike to You.
—Psalm 139:11–12Barbara Holmes (1943–2024) writes about the challenges and healing power of darkness:
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As an African American woman, I wear darkness as a skin colour that I love. It is a reminder of African origins, hidden in my genes, but not accessible through memory. Without darkness, I would not be! I entered the world from the nurturing darkness of the womb and relied upon a dark and resourceful family, community, and cosmos…Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord, my soul.
I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Do not put your trust in princes,
in human beings, who cannot save.
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
on that very day their plans come to nothing.
Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord their God
He is the Maker of heaven and earth,
the…Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord their God,
who made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that is in them;
who keeps faith forever Psalm 146:5–6Every winter, millions of monarch butterflies make an extraordinary journey. Fragile as paper, weighing less than a paperclip you’d lose in a desk drawer, they travel nearly 3,000 miles from Canada to the forests of central Mexico. No maps. No guides. Astonishingly, the butterflies that arrive aren’t the ones who set out. It takes four or five generations to…
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How good it is to sing praises to our God,
how pleasant and fitting to praise him!2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem;
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he gathers the exiles of Israel.
3 He heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds.
4 He determines the number of the stars
and calls them each by name.
5 Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit.
6…Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God;
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for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
2 Yahweh builds up Jerusalem.
He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
3 He heals the broken in heart,
and binds up their wounds.
4 He counts the number of the stars.
He calls them all by their names.
5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power.
His understanding is…The poet paints a vivid image of the natural world. But there’s more going on here than meets the eye. The references to sea creatures, the stormy wind and the depths are nods to pagan mythical figures: Tiamat, the divine sea monster; Baal, the storm god believed to control the weather and ‘the depths’, a code word for the forces of chaos.
The poet lists these scary characters with a wry smile. They’re neither gods nor demons, but simply part of nature. They depend on their Creator, who keeps them going every second of the day. Only God, the maker and sustainer of all,…
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