Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, Part 4: Psalm 137
You can chalk this blog post up to a writer’s overactive imagination, but here’s how I imagine the moment of creative impulse that formed the seed of this psalm. A Hebrew refugee is asked to sing by Babylonian captors. It’s not a request one can...
Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, Part 4: Psalm 137
It is officially football season. NFL preseason games were on almost every television at Beer and Loathing, last night; where I sat and listened to our own, Matt Wallace and Carlos Figueroa, play and enjoyed a pint or two of a delicious IPA. The college football...
Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, Part 4: Psalm 137
Each week I’ve been posting one of my photographs that resonates for me as it relates to the psalm we’re covering at Darkwood Brew. The last couple weeks I used the picture as sort of a landing point. A final thought. This week, I’m going to lead...
Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, General, Part 4: Psalm 137
This is a Psalm of disorientation and expresses the pain, the searaching, the questioning that is felt at times of deep loss. An honest expression of our humanity and the desire to be reconnected with God.This Pit Has No River This pit has no river. It’s...
Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, Part 4: Psalm 137
My wife Mary Ann and I were considering going to a mega church this last Sunday just to see what it was like but we passed on it and ended up going to our usual small church. One of the readings was from 1 Kings 19:10-13. The LORD Appears to Elijah And the word of the...
Blog, Can We Talk? Rant. Rejoice. Reimagine. The Psalms, Part 4: Psalm 137
“O daughter Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us! Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock!” (Psalm 137:8-9, NRSV) For me, the end of Psalm 137 has long been one of the...
