At a recent study Group, there was a discussion about the nature of Psalms and about how they can be used in our own praying. Psalms bring us close to the praying of Jesus and were his own ‘prayer book.’
We can approach the Psalms in whatever state of mind or being we are and there find comfort, love, challenge and a response to our own feelings and thoughts. In the Psalms we find honesty and a sense that whatever we are going through, good, bad and indifferent, we shall find God.

The study group leader suggested that the members might try to write their own version of a Psalm as a way of growing in understanding of both God and of self. The ‘Psalm’ which is offered here is one such response. It was Scarlet’s first offering of a ‘song to God’ from the centre of her heart.

There are echoes of Psalm 23, Psalm 138, and Psalm 8. The real echo comes from the hearing of God’s voice in a listening which needs silence for it to make the deepest impact on life, as it did, of course, to the writers of the Psalms in Old Testament times.

~ Psalm reflection by Scarlet Hellard-Malt.~