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Hirshfield:I have never wanted to wear any label—including the label of “Zen poet.” I have practiced Zen for fifty years now. I spent eight years in formal training, three of them at a monastery deep in the wilderness. This is part of who I am, part of how I see and feel. But...
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In the broader context of Psalm 39, David is grappling with the brevity and frailty of human life. This question underscores a shift from self-reliance to divine reliance, a theme prevalent throughout the Psalms. The rhetorical question suggests that the psalmist has exhausted all earthly options...
(Mark Twain)In philosophy of religion, there is a long history of belief that divine reality is immutable, although this has changed recently. In this article, the author takes a closer look at what some texts in the Psalms assumed about what it feels like for a god to suffer mentally. ...
Psalms 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? &c.] That is, the psalmist, while he was considering the greatness and glory of the celestial bodies, thought this within himself, and so expressed it; which is to be understood, not of man in general, nor of Adam in a state...
When attacked by those sinful thoughts please read the psalms, and the entire book of Ephesians. What is it that we obsess about? Our needs being met? I’ve been homeless for almost a decade, and my needs have always been met, and then some!
Similar approaches to poetry were developed in other parts of the world. Between the fourth century B.C. and the first century A.D., Hebrew poets composed intimate and lyrical psalms, which were sung in ancient Jewish worship services and compiled in the Hebrew Bible. During the eighth centur...
He then indwells believers only selectively, as He did during David’s time, when David cried out, “Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.” (Psalms 51:11) There will be believers in the Tribulation who will succumb to the antichrist’s coercion and...
Psalms 119:37 In-Context 35 Help me stay on the path of Your commands, for I take pleasure in it. 36 Turn my heart to Your decrees and not to material gain. 37 Turn my eyes from looking at what is worthless; give me life in Your ways. 38 Confirm what You said to Your se...