In honor of the end of one year and beginning of another, 🥳 I thought I would share some of my favorite psalms and the things I learned while studying them (which I did during covid, remember that fun time?). 🤦🏽‍♀️

Psalm 13 is one of my favorites. This short, sweet little poem starts with despair and ends with joy. Maybe not outward joy, but a soul claiming joy despite unanswered prayers. 🙏🏻

Isn’t that how our prayers go?

This psalm is written by King David- the least of his brothers, God’s anointed king who had to run for his life for 10+ years from his crazy father-in-law the first king…

“How long Lord? Will you forget me forever?”

Harsh words. But have you felt that way? Are you waiting for healing? For a lost loved one? Are you praying for someone’s salvation? Are you waiting for something and it seems God isn’t listening? 💡

The fact that David was a “man after God’s own heart” and even he questioned God in this way, proves that we can too.

It’s okay and good to say, “how long Lord? Have you forgotten me?” It’s already in our hearts, let it out and speak it to the One who knows already. ❤️

“Restore the sparkle to my eye or I will DIE!” (NLT) ✨

Because when we say that, release that to Him, a weight is lifted. And after some time, we can say… “but I trust in your unfailing love. I will still sing your praise. You have been good to me.”

“Whenever you look into David’s psalms, you may somewhere, or another see yourselves. You never get into a corner, but you find David in that corner. I think that I was never so low that I could not find that David was lower; and I never climbed so high that I could not find that David was up above me, ready to sing his song upon his stringed instrument, even as I could sing mine.”
-Charles Spurgeon, English preacher, 1834-1892

Be blessed today my friends

Heidi xoxo