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Prayers that Bring Us Home
by John Garland
Exploring the Psalms--the prayer book of the Bible--we learn together the Spiritual Vocabulary of healing, resilience, and praise. Ramona, Gaye, and John lean into the mystery and power of these ancient songs with awe. These prayers were held by an enslaved people through the horrific Exile in Babylon, then crafted, organized, and woven together into sacred meeting space to heal an entire nation and world. These are the prayers that Jesus used, lived into, unveiled, and gave to us to pray together. These are the Prayers that Bring Us HOMEFrom the San Antonio Mennonite Church, a joyful community that is doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God in our Southtown neighborhood.
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Psalm 47: When the Lowly Rise
Daily Prayer Companion for Psalm 47: Read the complete rendering, reflect on the line “Sing a song with understanding,” and pray with the image of empire’s bricks becoming a road home. The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a...
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Psalm 46: God Is With Us in the Shaking
Daily Prayer Companion for Psalm 46: Read the complete rendering, pray with the refrain “YAHWEH of armies is with us,” and listen for God’s voice amid the roar. The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to...
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Psalm 45: A Wedding Song After the Cry
Daily Prayer Companion for Psalm 45: Read the complete Psalm rendering, hold Psalm 44’s cry beside this wedding song, and pray with Jesus for a Kingdom of truth and humility. The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group…
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Psalm 44: Rise Up for Your Persistent-Love
Daily Prayer Companion for Psalm 44: Read the complete Psalm rendering, practice a prayer of communal lament, and carry a reflection on Justice and Persistent-Love into your day. The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group...
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Psalm 43: Send Your Light, Lead Me Home
Click here for the Daily Prayer Companion for Psalm 43: (Read the complete rendering, practice a one-minute prayer for light and truth, and carry a guided prayer into your day.) The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group...
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Psalm 42: When You Can’t Feel God
Psalm 42 begins Book II of the Psalms with a deer longing for water and a person longing for the living God. We pray with the memory of worship, the question “Where is your God?”, and the refrain “Hope in God.” We also consider the Dark Night and how spiritual direction can help us listen…
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Psalm 41: The Friend's Betrayal
Read the Psalm 41 Daily Prayer Companion for the complete rendering, a simple practice, a reflection question, and a prayer to borrow. The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in...
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Psalm 40: You Heard My Cry
Click here for today’s Daily Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the...
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Psalm 39: When I Want God to Leave Me Alone
Click here for today’s Daily Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the...
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Psalm 38: When Everything in Me Is Ruined
Click here for today’s Daily Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the...
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Psalm 37: Be Trustfully-Still
Click here for today’s Daily Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the...
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Psalm 36: In Your Light We See Light
Click here for today’s Daily Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the...
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Psalm 35: Say to My Being, “I Am Your Rescue”
Click HERE for today’s Daily Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the...
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Psalm 34: Taste and See
Click here for today’s Daily Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the...
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Psalm 33: The Horse Is a Lie for Rescue
Click here for today’s Daily Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the...
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Psalm 32: Coming Out of Hiding
Click here for today’s Daily Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the...
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Psalm 31: Into Your Hand
Click here for today’s Daily Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the...
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Psalm 30: Mourning Into Dancing
Click here for today’s Daily Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the...
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Psalm 29: The Voice Over the Waters
Click here for today’s Daily Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the...
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Psalm 28: When God Feels Silent
Click HERE for Today's Prayer Companion The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order, listening for the Messiah’s voice and learning to bring our whole lives into the…
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Psalm 27: One Thing I Ask
Find the Daily Prayer Companion for this episode HERE And subscribe at the bottom to receive a daily companion to your inbox The Prayers That Bring Us Home is a daily Psalm prayer podcast from San Antonio Mennonite Church. We gather as a group each morning to pray Jesus’ prayer book in order,...
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Psalm 26: An Undivided Life
YAHWEH, make my life Undivided. Let me walk in Your Faithfulness. Receive the daily Psalm email here Psalm 25 prayed: Your Ways, YAHWEH, make known to me. Psalm 26 takes the next step. What happens when we begin walking that Way? The prayer becomes: Test me, YAHWEH, and prove me. Refine my inner...
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Psalm 25: Teach Me Your Way
YAHWEH, teach us Your Way. Lead us in Persistent-Love. Receive the daily Psalm email here Psalm 24 ended with the gates opening and the King of Glory coming in. Psalm 25 brings us back down to the ground and asks what comes next. There is still a Way to walk. Psalm 1 began the Psalter with two...
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Psalm 24: The King of Glory Comes In
Receive the daily Psalm email here: King of Glory, come in. Open the way home. Psalm 24 completes the arc that began in Psalm 15. Psalm 15 asked: Who may Sojourn in Your Tent? Who may settle on Your Holy Mountain? Psalm 24 asks: Who may ascend the mountain of YAHWEH? Who may stand in His Holy...
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Psalm 23: YAHWEH Is My Shepherd
Receive the daily Psalm email here: YAHWEH, Shepherd us home. Restore our Being. Psalm 23 is one of the clearest secure attachment Psalms in the Psalter. Psalm 22 began: My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Psalm 23 answers: YAHWEH is my Shepherd. I do not lack. The Psalter does not skip...
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Psalm 22: The Forsaken One Leads the Praise
Receive the daily Psalm email here: My God, do not be far. Hold us when we feel forsaken. Psalm 22 begins in the place no one wants to pray from: My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? This is the Psalm Jesus prays from the cross. He does not quote it as a detached verse. He enters the Psalm’s...
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Psalm 21: Joy Before Your Face
Receive the daily Psalm email here: God, make us glad in Your Rescue. Hold us in Persistent-Love. Psalm 21 answers Psalm 20. Psalm 20 prayed for the king before the day of trouble: May YAHWEH answer you. May YAHWEH sustain you. May YAHWEH rescue His Anointed. Psalm 21 celebrates after Rescue has...
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Psalm 20: Chariots, Horses, and the Name
Receive the daily Psalm email here: God, we remember Your Name. Rescue us when trouble comes. Psalm 20 is the prayer of the community for the Anointed King. After Psalm 18’s cosmic Rescue and Psalm 19’s world full of trustworthy speech, Psalm 20 gathers the people around the Messiah before the…
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Psalm 19: The Words That Restore
Receive the daily Psalm email here God, let Your words give light. Restore our Being. Psalm 19 follows the cosmic Rescue of Psalm 18 with a world full of speech. Psalm 18 thundered with YAHWEH’s voice in the storm. The earth shook, the heavens bowed, the waters opened, and YAHWEH came down to...
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Psalm 18: Into the Wide Place
Receive the daily Psalm email here: https://mailchi.mp/8f1466744cd3/the-prayers-that-bring-us-home Prayer Mantra: God of Rescue, hear our cry. Bring us into the wide place. Psalm 18 is too large to explain line by line without making the storm smaller. In this episode, we pray its major…
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Psalm 17: Keep Me as the Pupil of Your Eye
Receive the daily Psalm email here God, hold our steps. Let us behold Your face. Psalm 17 intensifies the Messiah movement. Psalm 15 asked who may dwell with YAHWEH. Psalm 16 showed the secure trust of the One who dwells, beginning with the cry: “Keep me, God.” Psalm 17 continues that keeping:...
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Psalm 16: The Path of Life
Receive the daily Psalm email here: God, be our portion. Make known the path of life. Psalm 16 follows Psalm 15 beautifully. Psalm 15 asked, “Who may dwell with YAHWEH?” Psalm 16 gives us the inner life of the One who does. This is the secure prayer of the Beloved: YAHWEH is my portion. YAHWEH is...
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Psalm 15: Who May Dwell?
Receive the daily Psalm email here God, make our lives whole. Let us dwell with You. Psalm 15 opens the next movement of the Psalms with a question of belonging: YAHWEH, who may Sojourn in Your Tent? Who may settle on Your Holy Mountain? After Psalm 14 has said, “There is none who does good, not...
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Interlude: What Does Messiah Mean?
Receive the daily Psalm email here: Before we enter Psalms 15–24, we pause to ask: What does Messiah mean? Messiah means Anointed One. Christ is the Greek way of saying what Messiah says in Hebrew. The word begins with the simple, earthy act of anointing: oil poured over a person, place, or…
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Psalm 14: When No One Can Claim Innocence
Receive the daily Psalm email here: God, Rescue Us. Savior, Restore Us. Psalm 14 brings the enemy movement of Psalms 7–14 to a sobering diagnosis of humanity itself. The problem is no longer only the visible enemy, the empire, the liar, the archer in the dark, or the one who devours the poor. The...
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Psalm 13: How Long?
Receive the daily Psalm email here: YAHWEH, give light to my eyes. Hold me in Your Persistent-Love. Psalm 13 gathers the ache of Psalms 7–12 into one repeated question: “How long?” It is brief, but it carries the full movement from abandonment, to petition, to trust, to song. The Psalm begins…
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Psalm 12: When the Liar Speaks
Receive the daily Psalm email here: YAHWEH, purify our speech. Guard us with Your Faithful words. Psalm 12 narrows the enemy’s weapon to speech. Psalm 10 named predation. Psalm 11 named hidden arrows in the dark. Now Psalm 12 listens to the danger of smooth lips and double hearts. The Psalm...
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Psalm 11: When the Foundations Shake
Receive the daily Psalm email here YAHWEH, be our refuge. Hold us when foundations shake. Psalm 11 asks what the Aligned one can do when the foundations are destroyed. Psalm 9 praised YAHWEH as the Secure Height for the crushed. Psalm 10 cried out, “Do not stand far off. Come with Your saving...
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Psalm 10: Do Not Stand Far Off
Receive the daily Psalm email here: YAHWEH, do not stand far off. Come with Your saving Justice. Psalm 10 continues the acrostic movement begun in Psalm 9. Together, Psalms 9 and 10 carry the community through thanksgiving, injustice, protest, and the cry for God to act. The acrostic pattern is...
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Psalm 9: The Hope of the Crushed Will Not Perish
Receive the daily Psalm email here: YAHWEH, be our Secure Height. Remember the cry of the crushed. Psalm 9 begins a larger paired movement with Psalm 10. Together, these Psalms carry the community through thanksgiving, injustice, and the cry for God to act. They also carry the feel of an…
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Psalm 8: When Awe Interrupts Fear
Receive the daily Psalm email here: YAHWEH, draw us into wonder. Teach us the Messiah’s Way. Psalm 8 interrupts the enemy sequence with wonder. Psalm 7 brought accusation, violence, and Justice into the courtroom of God. Psalm 8 lifts our eyes to the heavens, the moon, the stars, the work of…
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Psalm 7: Let the Evil of the Twisted End
Receive the daily Psalm email here YAHWEH, be my Safe Covering. Test my heart and hold my cause. Psalm 7 expands the early rhythm of prayer into the courtroom of God. The community now brings accusation, innocence, violence, and Justice before YAHWEH. The pray-er feels hunted, almost like prey...
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Interlude: Why Folks HATE the Psalms!
Sign-up for the daily email Psalms 7–14 introduce the enemy and the liar. But the enemy is not simply a human opponent on the other side of our preferred argument. The enemy is the whole pattern of Twisting: deceit, predation, arrogance, exploitation of the poor, weaponized speech, violence, and...
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Psalm 6: The Bed of Tears
Sign up for daily emails here: YAHWEH, hear my weeping. Rescue me with Your Persistent-Love. Psalm 6 returns us to night, but this time the danger has entered the body. Psalms 3 and 4 teach rest under threat and stillness under agitation. Psalm 5 rises to keep watch in the morning. Psalm 6 lets…
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Psalm 5: At Morning, I Keep Watch
SIGN-UP FOR THE DAILY EMAIL YAHWEH, at morning hear my voice. Lead me in Your Aligned Way. Psalm 5 teaches us that morning prayer is not only devotion. It is discernment. After the nighttime prayers of Psalms 3 and 4, the pray-er rises, lays out the day before God, and keeps watch for what is…
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Psalm 4: Brought into the Wide Place
YAHWEH, bring me into Your wide place. Settle my heart in Your Security. Psalm 4 lies down with anger, shame, and agitation still awake inside the room. Psalm 3 teaches us to rest under threat. Psalm 4 teaches us to bring the trembling body, the wounded heart, and the tight place into the…
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Psalm 3: Safe Covering in the Night
YAHWEH, You are my Safe Covering. Hold my life and let me rest. Psalm 3 places us immediately inside the conflict opened by Psalms 1 and 2. Psalm 1 gives the rooted Way. Psalm 2 gives the raging world. Psalm 3 brings us into the experience of being surrounded, accused, and told, “There is no…
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Interlude: The Rhythm of Psalms 3–6
Psalms 1 and 2 form the doorway of the Psalter: Psalm 1 asks where a life is planted, and Psalm 2 names the raging world that resists the Way of God. Then Psalm 3 begins with trouble. In this brief interlude, John introduces the movement of Psalms 3–6 as a basic rhythm of prayer: Psalm 3 teaches…
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Psalm 2: Shelter in a Raging World
Beloved Son, hold us in Your shelter. Teach us awe in a raging world. Psalm 2 is the second gate of the Psalter. Psalm 1 gives the Way of the Aligned. Psalm 2 gives the world that resists that Way. Together they open the prayer book with formation and conflict, rootedness and rebellion, Lighted...
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Psalm 1: Rooted in the Way
YAHWEH, root me in Your Way. Let me flourish from what You give. Psalm 1 is the first gate of the Psalter. Before the book gives us lament, rescue, abandonment, praise, and kingdom, it asks where a life is planted. What counsel is shaping us? What path is training our desire? What seat is…
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Exploring the Psalms--the prayer book of the Bible--we learn together the Spiritual Vocabulary of healing, resilience, and praise. Ramona, Gaye, and John lean into the mystery and power of these ancient songs with awe. These prayers were held by an enslaved people through the horrific Exile in Babylon, then crafted, organized, and woven together into sacred meeting space to heal an entire nation and world. These are the prayers that Jesus used, lived into, unveiled, and gave to us to pray together. These are the Prayers that Bring Us HOMEFrom the San Antonio Mennonite Church, a joyful community that is doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God in our Southtown neighborhood.
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Exploring the Psalms--the prayer book of the Bible--we learn together the Spiritual Vocabulary of healing, resilience, and praise. Ramona, Gaye, and John lean into the mystery and power of these ancient songs with awe. These prayers were held by an enslaved people through the horrific Exile in...
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