Psalm 39 – Derek: Meditating on the Way

July 30, 2026

Ever feel like life is not exactly the way it is supposed to be, and you wanna’ say something? Psalm 39 is for you. Functioning like Job and Ecclesiastes, the Psalmist cannot keep silent. The fire in the Psalmist ‘s bones protests and groans over the brevity of life, its trouble and seemingly pointlessness. Nevertheless, […]

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Bent and Broken but Better For It?

April 29, 2009

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but–I hope–into a better shape. Estella to Pip, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, chap. 59 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I […]

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