(The following is Eugene Peterson s introduction to the Psalms in his translation of them in The Message.)
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1 (The following is Eugene Peterson s introduction to the Psalms in his translation of them in The Message.) Most Christians for most of the Christian centuries have learned to pray by praying the Psalms. The Hebrews, with several centuries of a head start on us in matters of prayer and worship, provided us with this prayer book that gives us a language adequate for responding to the God who speaks to us. The stimulus to paraphrase the Psalms into a contemporary idiom comes from my lifetime of work as a pastor. As a pastor I was charged with, among other things, teaching people to pray, helping them to give voice to the entire experience of being human, and to do it both honestly and thoroughly. I found that it was not as easy as I expected. Getting started is easy enough. The impulse to pray is deep within us, at the very center of our created being, and so practically anything will do to get us started Help and Thanks! are our basic prayers. But honesty and thoroughness don t come quite as spontaneously. Faced with the prospect of conversation with a holy God who speaks worlds into being, it is not surprising that we have trouble. We feel awkward and out of place: I m not good enough for this. I ll wait until I clean up my act and prove that I am a decent person. Or we excuse ourselves on the grounds that our vocabulary is inadequate: Give me a few months or years! to practice prayers that are polished enough for such a sacred meeting. Then I won t feel so stuttery and ill at ease. My usual response when presented with these difficulties is to put the Psalms in a person s hand and say, Go home and pray these. You ve got wrong ideas about prayer; the praying you find in these Psalms will dispel the wrong ideas and introduce you to the real thing. A common response of those who do what I ask is surprise they don t expect this kind of thing in the Bible. And then I express surprise at their surprise: Did you think these would be the prayers of nice people? Did you think the psalmists language would be polished and polite? Untutored, we tend to think that prayer is what good people do when they are doing their best. It is not. Inexperienced, we suppose that there must be an insider language that must be acquired before God takes us seriously in our prayer. There is not. Prayer is elemental, not advanced, language. It is the means by which our language becomes honest, true, and personal in response to God. It is the means by which we get everything in our lives out in the open before God. But even with the Psalms in their hands and my pastoral encouragement, people often tell me that they still don t get it. In English translation, the Psalms often sound smooth and polished, sonorous with Elizabethan rhythms and diction. As literature, they are beyond compare. But as prayer, as the utterances of men and women passionate for God in moments of anger and praise and lament, these translations miss something. Grammatically, they are accurate. The scholarship undergirding the translations is superb and devout. But as prayers they are not quite right. The Psalms in Hebrew are earthy and rough. They are not genteel. They are not the prayers of nice people, couched in cultured language.
2 And so in my pastoral work of teaching people to pray, I started paraphrasing the Psalms into the rhythms and idiom of contemporary English. I wanted to provide men and women access to the immense range and the terrific energies of prayer in the kind of language that is most immediate to them, which also happens to be the language in which these psalm prayers were first expressed and written by David and his successors. I continue to want to do that, convinced that only as we develop raw honesty and detailed thoroughness in our praying do we become whole, truly human in Jesus Christ, who also prayed the Psalms.
3 MAY May 7th Scatter Introduce 90 Days of Summer in the Psalms/Known & Seen Day 1-Psalm 1-3 Monday Day 2-Psalm 4-5 Tuesday Day 3-Psalm 6-7 Wednesday Day 4-Psalm 8-9 Thursday Day 5-Psalm 10 Friday Day 6-Psalm Saturday May 14th Scatter (Mother's Day) Psalm Day 8-Psalm 17 Monday Day 9-Psalm 18 Tuesday Day 10-Psalm 19 Wednesday Day 11-Psalm Thursday Day 12-Psalm 22 Friday Day 13-Psalm Saturday May 21st Lockerbie Psalm Day 15-Psalm Monday Day 16-Psalm Tuesday Day 17-Psalm 31 Wednesday Day 18-Psalm Thursday Day 19-Psalm 34 Friday Day 20-Psalm 35 Saturday May 28th OFF (Memorial Day) Psalm 36 Day 22-Psalm 37 Monday Day 23-Psalm Tuesday Day 24-Psalm 40 Wednesday Day 25-Psalm Thursday Day 26-Psalm Friday Day 27-Psalm Saturday
4 JUNE June 4th Scatter Psalm Day 29-Psalm 49 Monday Day 30-Psalm 50 Tuesday Day 31-Psalm 51 Wednesday Day 32-Psalm Thursday Day 33-Psalm 55 Friday Day 34-Psalm Saturday June 11th Scatter Psalm Day 36-Psalm Monday Day 37-Psalm Tuesday Day 38-Psalm Wednesday Day 39-Psalm Thursday Day 40-Psalm 68 Friday Day 41-Psalm 69 Saturday June 18th Scatter (Fathers Day) Psalm Day 43-Psalm 72 Monday Day 44-Psalm 73 Tuesday Day 45-Psalm Wednesday Day 46-Psalm Thursday Day 47-Psalm 78 Friday Day 48-Psalm 79 Saturday June 25th Lockerbie Psalm 80 Day 50-Psalm 81 Monday Day 51-Psalm Tuesday Day 52-Psalm Wednesday Day 53-Psalm Thursday Day 54-Psalm 88 Friday Day 55-Psalm 89 Saturday
5 JULY July 2nd Scatter Psalm 90 Day 57-Psalm 91 Monday Day 58-Psalm Tuesday Day 59-Psalm 94 Wednesday Day 60-Psalm Thursday Day 61-Psalm Friday Day 62-Psalm Saturday July 9th Scatter Psalm 102 Day 64-Psalm 103 Monday Day 65-Psalm 104 Tuesday Day 66-Psalm 105 Wednesday Day 67-Psalm 106 Thursday Day 68-Psalm 107 Friday Day 69-Psalm 108 Saturday July 16th Scatter Psalm 109 Day 71-Psalm 110 Monday Day 72-Psalm 111 Tuesday Day 73-Psalm 112 Wednesday Day 74-Psalm Thursday Day 75-Psalm 115 Friday Day 76-Psalm Saturday July 23rd Lockerbie Psalm 118 Day 78-Psalm 119 Monday Day 79-Psalm Tuesday Day 80-Psalm Wednesday Day 81-Psalm Thursday Day 82-Psalm Friday Day 83-Psalm Saturday July 30th OFF (5th Sunday) Psalm Day 85-Psalm Monday Day 86-Psalm Tuesday Day 87-Psalm Wednesday Day 88-Psalm Thursday Day 89-Psalm Friday Day 90-Psalm Saturday
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