Sunday, June 20, 2021 (Day 20) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 20 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) May the Lord answer you on the day of distress, the name of Jacob's God make you safe. May the Lord send help to you from the sanctum, and from Zion may the Lord sustain you. May [...]
Saturday, June 19, 2021 (Day 19) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 19 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) The heavens tell God's glory, and God's handiwork sky declares. Day to day breathes utterance and night to night pronounces knowledge. There is no utterance and there are no words, their voice is never heard. Through all [...]
Friday, June 18, 2021 (Day 18) Katie Snipes LancasterPsalm 18 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) I am impassioned of You, Lord, my strength!The Lord is my crag and my bastion,and my deliverer, my God,my rock where I shelter,my shield and the horn of my rescue,my fortress...In my strait I called to the Lord,to my [...]
Thursday, June 17 2021 (Day 17) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 17 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Hear, O Lord, a just thing. Listen well to my song. Hearken to my guileless prayer. An Opening Word I love these opening words to Psalm 17. They give us a glimpse of a person seeking God [...]
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 (Day 16) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 16 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Guard me, O God, for I shelter in You. I said to the Lord, "My Master You are. My good is only through You." ... I set the Lord always before me, on my right hand, that [...]
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 (Day 15) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 15 (adapted from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Lord, who will sojourn in Your tent, Who will dwell on Your holy mountain? The one who walks blameless And does justice And speaks the truth in their heart. An Opening Word Who will sojourn to [...]
The Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster God, you are the great silence before whom all words fail. But even the words that fail need to be spoken and so we come to you in prayer. We seek you. We trust you. We long for you. So meet us here in what is familiar and [...]
Sunday, June 13, 2021 (Day 13) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 13 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) How long, O Lord, will You forget me always? How long hide Your face from me? ...But I in Your kindness do trust, my heart exults in Your rescue. Let me sing to the Lord, for God [...]
Saturday, June 12, 2021 (Day 12) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 12 (from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) Rescue, O Lord! For the faithful is gone, For vanished is trust from all generations. Falsehood everyone speaks to one another, Smooth talk, with two hearts they speak. The Lord will cut off all smooth-talking lips, The [...]
Friday, June 11, 2021 (Day 11) Katie Snipes Lancaster Psalm 11 (adapted from Robert Altar’s 2007 translation) In the Lord I sheltered. How could you say to me, “Off to the hills like a bird! For, look, the wicked bend back the bow, they fix to the string their arrow to shoot from [...]