Psalms 27:10: “When my mother and father forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.”   The first word in this verse in Hebrew is ki. Translators take a lot of liberty with this word.   Generally it is rendered as a conjunction because (my mother and father...

  Psalms 1:2:  “But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”   Last evening I spent some time talking with a friend who practices something I call meditative prayer.  There is a lot of tears while she is...

    Psalms 1:2: “But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law doth he meditate day and night.”   My father used to tell a story about a time when he was a boy living on a farm way back in the hills of Missouri. A stranger walked through carrying...

  Psalms 3:7: “Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou has smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.”   “O this is poison of deep grief, it springs all from her father’s death, O Gertrude, Gertrude, when...