Songs of Rescue and Deliverance

Upon reading the Book of Psalms in its entirety and establishing a habit of praying morning prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours, I was struck by a dominant theme of the psalms: rescue and deliverance.

Upon reading the Book of Psalms in its entirety and establishing a habit of praying morning prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours, I was struck by a dominant theme of the psalms: rescue and deliverance.

We may be horrified when we first read the curses in the Book of Psalms. But do they have a spiritual sense that could help us?

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” Psalm 139:13-14 Take a few minutes –…