Reminder: Bible Study, Wednesday, February 20, 7:30 p.m., All Saints' Conference Room - Please Respond with "your" Psalm!

[phillip palmr]

Dear Scripture Scholars!

 

Bruce will be unable to attend and lead our Bible study this Wednesday, so he has asked me to lead the session.  I will muddle through, with your help.

 

Please respond back to me and to the group with the psalm (or psalms) that you are going to discuss on Wednesday.  Please come prepared to read your psalm before discussing it.  These are poems, and we should first listen to them before discussing!

 

I will discuss Psalm 62, unless someone else wants it.

 

I look forward to our time together this coming Wednesday!

 

Peace!

 

Phil

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Subject:	Date for Fourth Session of the Psalms: Wednesday, February 20th at 7:30PM in the Conference Room
Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:40:36 -0800
From:	Bruce Delagi <bruce....@sbcglobal.net>
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CC:	phillip palmr <pmpa...@sbcglobal.net>, Susan Barkan <saba...@me.com>, Scott Barsky <Tsre...@aol.com>, David Chu <davidf...@gmail.com>, Dick Raiter <rjra...@sbcglobal.net>, Peter and Meme Enemark <peter.a...@gmail.com>, Diane Frankle <diane....@kayescholer.com>, Bob Frankle <ffci...@comcast.net>, Vicky Greenbaum <vicky.g...@menloschool.org>, Mary Ann Hayward <maryann...@comcast.net>, Annie Houghteling <an...@anneh.com>, Steve Huggins <sbh...@pacbell.net>, Becky Mikkelsen <bmikke...@yahoo.com>, Mike Morganstern <m_mo...@pacbell.net>, Nobuko Palmer <nobuko...@gmail.com>, Christa Preston <cprest...@gmail.com>, Gloria Van Bree <gvan...@pacbell.net>, Jake Warde <jwa...@wardepub.com>, Emily Warde <warde...@gmail.com>, Kent Williams <WilKe...@att.net>, Tom Wootton <tpwo...@aol.com>, Sofia Zaslavsky <sdz...@my-patent.net>

Confirming the date for the next time we meet to study the psalms:

        Wednesday, February 20th at 7:30PM in the Conference Room


We'll be studying psalms for the Winter of the Soul from http://psalter.asaints.org.

Please copy the group with the psalm you've chosen to speak about.

The questions are at

http://psalter.tiddlyspace.com/#%5B%5BPsalms%3A%20Questions%20for%20Discussion%5D%5D

Here are the psalms:

Behold: Expanding our vision in the wisdom of God...

Refined in the crucible of autumn, we have, as a hard won treasure, a new humility. We turn the corner into the starkness of a winter growth that will spiral upward to develop a new cycle of seasons within us. We have won the lowliness that allows us to see the creative interdependence that illuminates all that has been made in 'glory' and wonder. We notice more. We behold.

We see each other in God's light, each of us precious and in need, beautiful and broken. We feel a tenderness flowing all around us, and surprisingly, through us. We feel a need to bless, to bestow, as we are able, the power for life. We feel a need to heal.

What we see seems alive. We are in the eye of a storm shimmering with life, a life intimately connected in a web of eternal being that includes us and all we have loved. With clear eyes we can value the goodness in what we see. There's a lot of it. In ourselves too. We come to know, if only fleetingly, that all shall be well, that all manner of thing shall be well.

The cycle of seasons will continue all our life. There will be a spring with another awakening. There will be a summer bringing a deeper repentance, a cry for help from another place within us that needs healing, and a new sensitivity to the wounds all around us. There will be another autumn and yet more emptiness to create within us so we may bear the life that is of God. But for a time, in this season, in a joyful, vibrant stillness, we rest and wonder simply in what is. And behold, it is very good.

Psalm 8: O Lord, our Lord...

Psalm 19: The heavens declare the glory of God...

Psalm 29: Acknowledge the Lord, you heavenly beings...

Psalm 33: You godly ones, shout for joy because of the Lord!...

Psalm 93: The Lord reigns!...

Psalm 95: Come! Let's sing for joy to the Lord!...

Psalm 97: The Lord reigns!...

Psalm 104: O Lord my God, you are magnificent...

Psalm 114: When Israel left Egypt...

Psalm 147: For it is good to sing praises to our God!...

Psalm 148: Praise the Lord from the sky!...

Yes: Devoting our will to the mission and purpose of God...

When we behold the web of life, we know how much we are called to touch all the parts of it that need healing. Like the bodhisattvas, we see that creation needs our care. We find our model in the very early hymn about the Christ that is quoted in the Letter to the the Phillipians:

Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped.
But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way like a human being,
he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.

What's shocking is that this speaks about the nature of the One whom we call the Almighty.

Accepting the call to "feed my sheep", answering the question, "Do you love me?" brings us to the yes that the Creator makes for all creation, the yes of the Cross. The stakes seem impossibly high. Next spring when we say, "Here I am" ready to serve with God in God's creation, we'll begin to understand the surrender involved. The vine will be pruned. "Your will be done." We say it every Sunday. Maybe more often than that. We say yes from a love that echoes the love that knew us in our mother's womb. We are called to say yes to the final surrender of the life we now know, when the One who was there at our beginning, at all beginnings, says, "Follow me"

Psalm 15: Lord, who may be a guest in your home?...

Psalm 24: The Lord owns the earth and all it contains...

Psalm 26: Vindicate me, O Lord...

Psalm 32: How blessed is the one whose rebellious acts are forgiven...

Psalm 37: Do not fret when wicked men seem to succeed!...

Psalm 49: Listen to this, all you nations!...

Psalm 72: O God, grant the king the ability to make just decisions!...

Psalm 81: Shout for joy to God, our source of strength!...

Psalm 101: I will sing about loyalty and justice!...

Psalm 112: How blessed is the one who obeys the Lord...

Psalm 125: Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion...

Psalm 141: O Lord, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me!...

. . . . Resting our souls in the attention of God...

The still small voice of a silent communion calls to us into a love that needs no, can have no, words. We hear the silence after the bell is rung, the silence between each note. We sense the small time between each breath, the joyous space below the feet when we follow the Lord of the Dance. In community with each other, attentive to each other, we listen. It sometimes is the best thing we do. There is the Quiet One. Resting. We listen. God does too. It is hospitality for our souls. We do not speak. As was true in the Spring of the Soul, we are simply here.

Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd...

Psalm 62: For God alone I patiently wait...

Psalm 87: The Lord's city is in the holy hills...

Psalm 103: Praise the Lord, O my soul!...

Psalm 116: I love the Lord...

Psalm 118: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good...

Psalm 127: If the Lord does not build a house...

Psalm 131: O Lord, my heart is not proud...

Psalm 133: Look! How good and how pleasant it is...

Psalm 136: Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good...

[Becky]

Dear Everyone--I'd like to discuss Psalm 23-- it's so special and well loved, and please let's all share our thoughts!        Becky --- On Mon, 2/18/13, phillip palmr <pmpa...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

[Frankle, Diane]

I had agreed to speak about 121 not on the list but sspecial to me.

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[phillip palmr]

OK, you've got it!

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[joan raiter]

Hi Phil:

I would like to take Psalm #33 and or #96. 

Looking forward,

Dick

Accepting the call to "feed my sheep", answering the question, "Do you love me?" brings us to theyes that the Creator makes for all creation, the yes of the Cross. The stakes seem impossibly high. Next spring when we say, "Here I am" ready to serve with God in God's creation, we'll begin to understand the surrender involved. The vine will be pruned. "Your will be done." We say it every Sunday. Maybe more often than that. We say yes from a love that echoes the love that knew us in ourmother's womb. We are called to say yes to the final surrender of the life we now know, when the One who was there at our beginning, at all beginnings, says, "Follow me"

[ffcircus]

I plan to read Psalm 114.

 

See you tomorrow.

 

Bob

 

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Subject: Reminder: Bible Study, Wednesday, February 20, 7:30 p.m., All Saints' Conference Room - Please Respond with "your" Psalm!

 

Dear Scripture Scholars!