Praying Through Psalms

Cindy Hamilton

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CHRISTIANITY

A weekly contemplative meditation on the Psalms using Anglican prayer beads.

07/07/2025

PSALM 6 A Cry for Help

YOU MAY OR MAY NOT relate to the Psalmists's description of flooding his bed with tears, but anxious thoughts may keep you awake at night. When anxious thoughts cause your heart to mourn, then with the Psalmist pray, "Save my life; deliver me for the sake of your steadfast love." You can find this book on Amazon and the second in the series: Meditations and Prayers from the Old and New Testament: A Guide to Contemplative Prayer Using Anglican Prayer Beads. https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Prayers-Old-Testaments-Contemplative/dp/0999290479/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GS4I7KQ29P4B&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ywkRt9L8SC5dUMMPzqySzJMvq25sA_2xtJgfRTmL8BhZrOv8aUh2L0WS27mHdguh-a3kutpM8Iyuj9VAt46iFHg3AJB_i2_4IQ2xGmrlpA1Tz2Cxq4ZBUd-gRnfWARjQoA1sSUIGUXkfHPB9tOjNjFURHvDOHR21tdr5z8ABHsSDnFzmOjFSKacZKHU_RAAzIU4H8YQ5HCCzaM4_-NCOBAm7EB1yqCE12LS2QEzOdqw.4QVfvZ7FBad3uBzcaPpdEFU4qkKf4eM2qVCpQwXY7xc&dib_tag=se&keywords=meditations+and+prayers+from+the+old+and+new+testaments&qid=1751830936&sprefix=Meditations+and+prayers%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-1

7 min
06/09/2025

Psalm 5

The third set of seven beads is taken from verse 8. I find this an almost daily prayer, "Lord, lead me," and then make my way straight, giving me wisdom for the journey. I cannot answer the great "problem of evil" question. However, I find peace in Psalm 5:4, in the knowledge that God does not "delight in wickedness," that evil is not allowed to travel with God. Go with God. I am re-releasing Praying through Psalms as a podcast, and will call it Season 3. You can find the paperback on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=praying+through+psalms+cindy+hamilton&crid=3HELEC7E7CP1K&sprefix=Praying+the+Psalms+cindy%2Caps%2C173&ref=nb_sb_ss_p13n-pd-dpltr-ranker_1_24 The second book in this series was released three weeks ago. Meditations and Prayers from the Old and New Testaments: A Guide for Contemplative Prayer Using Anglican Prayer Beads. It, too, is on Amazon or wherever books are sold. I am always grateful for your reviews on Amazon, for both books. I hope you had a wonderful Pentecost Sunday!!

6 min
12/31/2024

PSALM 150 Hymn of Praise

THE PSALTER concludes with this: "Praise the Lord!" I leave this for all of us then: "Praise the Lord!!" Where will you praise him? Why will you praise him? With what will you praise him? PRAISE THE LORD!!

6 min
12/26/2024

PSALM 145 Hymn of Praise

"ONE GENERATION shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts." We have been given the sacred trust of being a generation that passes on the faith, the knowledge of the One True God, Maker and Keeper of the earth. Ask the Lord for his guidance in passing on the faith. We are nearing the end of the year. Have you ever practiced a year end examen? Ask the Lord where were you closest to him over the last year. Then ask him when you were not near to him. Listen, have conversation with him. Then ask how you can best pass on the faith to others in this next year. Journal.

8 min
12/23/2024

PSALM 139 Wonderfully made

IT IS OFTEN DIFFICULT for us to believe that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Yet, this is exactly what the Lord would have us know about our creation. James Mays says that Psalm 139 is a "doctrinal classic because it portrays human existence in all its dimensions in terms of God's knowledge, presence, and power. It reflects an understanding of the human as enclosed in divine reality...it teaches and confesses in the fullest way that 'my times are in your hand'" (425). Tomorrow is Christmas Eve the time we remember and celebrate that Jesus came to earth to save us from wandering far from him; to be restored to our Father in Heaven who created us to be his own.

10 min
12/19/2024

PSALM 136 Hymn of Praise

REMEMBERING is a major theme in the Old Testament. In the Psalms we have the liturgy passed on to us in order to remember that God created and God saves. Think of your journey of faith. What are the stones of remembrance in your own life? What stories do you find yourself retelling? Ask the Lord to bring to mind those stories you may have forgotten, or perhaps did not, at the time, see his hand in the course of events. Ask him if there is more for you to learn from those moments. Give thanks by praising Our Father in heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.

9 min
12/16/2024

PSALM 121 A Song of Ascent

PSLAMS 120 THROUGH 134 are called the Songs of Ascent. These songs were sung when the people were on pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Jerusalem sits at an elevation of about 2,700 feet, thus the idea of ascending, going up to Jerusalem. The Psalms of Ascent are filled with assurances of faith and the joy of expectation in going to the house of the Lord, as in Psalm 122:1. When I see Israel in the Psalms, I remember God's people could fit there just as well, and then I am included.

6 min
12/12/2024

PSALM 119:1-8

BLAMELESS is how the Father sees us when we are Christ's own. As I pray this psalm, I wonder, what are his statutes? What are his precepts? The Old Testament has so many. Then, I remember what Jesus said, "The greatest commandment is to love the Lord you God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind, and the second is like it, to love your neighbor as yourself." This word is enough for the day. These two are the precepts I press into, and I pray with the Psalmist that my ways may be steadfast in keeping God's statutes.

7 min

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10/03/2023

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A weekly contemplative meditation on the Psalms using Anglican prayer beads.

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Cindy Hamilton
Years Active

2022 - 2025
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103
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