Encountering God Through the Six Psalms of Matins
Psalms 3, 37, 62, 87, 102, and 142—have been prayed by Orthodox Christians for centuries. Together they lead us through struggle and repentance toward longing for God, gratitude, trust, and the desire for His guidance.
But how often do you hear or pray these Psalms without fully entering into what they are saying?
A new book, Praying the Morning Psalms, provides a commentary to help you recognize your own spiritual life within these ancient prayers. The Psalms speak to fear, distraction, temptation, repentance, spiritual warfare, hope, and our need for God’s mercy. The Orthodox Church has chosen these six for our daily morning prayer.
The purpose of this book is not simply to explain the Psalms intellectually, but to help you pray them more deeply—so that their words move “from the mind into the heart.”
As you read this commentary, you will begin to understand them more fully. You will soon discover that you are no longer simply listening to David pray. You begin to pray with him. His cry becomes your cry, his repentance your repentance, and his trust in God the trust you are learning to offer yourself.
This book invites you not simply to learn more about the Six Psalms, but to let them teach you how to stand before God in prayer
Praying the Morning Psalms is now available on Amazon.
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