In the introduction to the Psalms, Eugene Peterson translator of the The Message speaks of the Psalms as opportunities to pray. Not prayer of flowery poetic language but word of heart-felt, gut-wrenching passion. So, I have begun to read and pray in that perspective. I discovered these words the other day. What a prayer to start the day!
"Clean the slate, God, so we can start the day fresh!
Keep me from stupid sins,
from thinking I can take over your work;
Then I can start this day sun-washed,
scrubbed clean of the grime of sin.
These are the words in my mouth;
these are what I chew on and pray.
Accept them when I place them
on the morning altar,
O God, my Altar-Rock,
God, Priest-of-My-Altar."
Psalm 19:12-14 The Message
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