by Paraclete Press | May 10, 2015 | Terms of Heart
Last week’s post ended with my encouraging you to record the images, or metaphors, that David uses to describe his God. Good poets carefully choose their images to be more than what they are– that is, to transport the reader or listener beyond the “thing” itself to a...
by Paraclete Press | May 3, 2015 | Terms of Heart
In my last post I promised we would turn attention to the psalms next. As we do so, we move away from examining what others, including God, have said about David to listening to what David has to say about himself– in relation to and in relationship with the...
by Paraclete Press | Apr 24, 2015 | Terms of Heart
Last Saturday I spent the morning in a workshop on the ancient prayer tradition known as Lectio Divina. This centuries-old form of meditation has been engaged by Christians since at least the 4th century and it is actually much older than that. In fact the practice is...
by Paraclete Press | Apr 7, 2015 | Terms of Heart, Vision
God’s selection of the shepherd boy David to replace Saul and to become King of Israel seems to have surprised his father Jesse. He had, after all, neglected to consider David initially as he paraded his other sons before Samuel. Even after the prophet had...
by Paraclete Press | Apr 6, 2015 | Terms of Heart, Voice
Let me begin by saying that I see the answer so clearly that I don’t understand the need for this question. But others do, so I will pose it so I can respond. Did David write the psalms attributed to him? Yes, I think he did and I believe the question of authorship...
by Paraclete Press | Apr 3, 2015 | Terms of Heart
Early one morning in February 2005 I sat alone in a one-room building that had once been a corncrib atop a hill called Mt. San Angelo nestled in the Shenandoah. The quiet and isolation of that tiny space conspired with the sheer beauty of the surrounding Blue Ridge...
