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“Big Name” (#8 in the Psalter Project)
3 Mar 2015

“Big Name” (#8 in the Psalter Project)

by heather | posted in: Psalter Project | 0

“You are holy…” “I praise your name…” Does it seem like you’ve sung the same words of praise a hundred times? This morning? A villanelle is a poetic form in which two whole lines must be re-used in a strict … Continued

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Psalm 7: “Shield” (Psalter Project)
11 Feb 2015

Psalm 7: “Shield” (Psalter Project)

by heather | posted in: Psalter Project | 1

I’ve never used an actual shield…but every day I feel the need of some kind of shielding, and I started this psalm-poem thinking about that need for protection and escape. It moves on, of course, from there through all the … Continued

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Psalm 6: “Emergency Room” (Psalter Project)
19 Sep 2014

Psalm 6: “Emergency Room” (Psalter Project)

by heather | posted in: Psalter Project | 2

Some Psalms cry out in pain…we rarely sing those verses in our praise songs or print them on posters or pin them on pinterest, but the songs of God’s people are often full of agony mixed in with faith and … Continued

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Psalm 5: “Spinning” (Psalter Project)
20 Jun 2014

Psalm 5: “Spinning” (Psalter Project)

by heather | posted in: Psalter Project | 0

“Sweet God, turn to me, I turn to you…” From “wooly thoughts” to “echoes laid straight,” here is my version of Psalm 5, “Spinning.” (My sister Lindsay and I are writing poems based on each of the psalms in order. … Continued

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Psalm 4: “Amplify” (Psalter Project)
6 May 2014

Psalm 4: “Amplify” (Psalter Project)

by heather | posted in: Psalter Project | 4

From “speak softness when I make an ugly noise” to “amplify, great God, turn up the shine”–I love the way psalms move from one emotional place to another, like a river sweeping the reader along. Here is Lindsay’s version of … Continued

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Psalm 3: “External Heart” (Psalter Project)
13 Mar 2014

Psalm 3: “External Heart” (Psalter Project)

by heather | posted in: Psalter Project | 0

Here is my poem version of Psalm 3. (You might want to start at the beginning of our Psalter Project, or see all the psalms I’ve posted so far.) I am my own worst enemy. God, swarms of fears are … Continued

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Psalm 2: “Necks in the Sand” (Psalter Project)
7 Mar 2014

Psalm 2: “Necks in the Sand” (Psalter Project)

by heather | posted in: Psalter Project | 0

Here is Lindsay’s poetic response to Psalm 2, the next installment in our Psalter Project. (To see all the psalms posted so far, click here.) Why do they stew in their own spleen in a bath that boils but does … Continued

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Psalm 1: “Fulfilled” (Psalter Project)
3 Mar 2014

Psalm 1: “Fulfilled” (Psalter Project)

by heather | posted in: Psalter Project | 9

A few years ago, my sister Lindsay and I began writing a “Psalter” together: our own poems based on each of the biblical Psalms in order. I write the odd-numbered psalms, she writes the evens! All kinds of life events … Continued

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