Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honour the grace that keeps this world. I am a [wo]man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is. (Wendell Berry)

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Psalms: Book I

So like I said before, I've been going through the book of Psalms. Today I finished "Book I." Book I includes Psalm 1-41. About half way through I realized that I'd never in my life remember all the cool stuff I was reading. It seemed certain Psalms stuck out to me for certain reasons and I'd read most of them while saying to myself, "self, this would be great for when you feel like (insert emotion here)." Knowing that I'd never remember that when I was actually feeling (insert same emotion), I thought, HEY I'll make a bookmark with all this stuff and put it in the beginning of Psalms so when I'm feeling (again, note the pattern...), I can know where to go. SO... behold.



It fits so purty.

So here's what I got. These are the things that stick out to me, and some are just verses out of chapters that I underlined and then stuck the chapter in the category, so it's pretty personalized, however, if you want to know what Psalms to go to for confession or for fear, I thought I'd put it on my blog. You'll have to make your own little bookmark though.

Psalms Index- Book I (Chapters 1-41)
Scripture/Meditation on the law: Chapters 1,12, 18,19,33
God's Sovereignty: Chapters 2,16,20,22,27,29,30
Fear: Chapters 3,16,20,23,27,34
Anger: Chapter 4
Confession of Sin: Chapters 19,25,32,38,39,40
God is Near and Hears: Chapters 5,9,10,11,13,18,22,23,25,27,28,30,31,34,40
Waiting: Chapters 5,13,16,27,31,33,37,40
Bad Personality Traits/Warnings: Chapters 5,7,9,10,12,14,15,16,19,28,36,37
God's Majesty and Handiwork: Chapters 8,18,19,24,29,33
Frustration: Chapters 13,22,25,39
Holy Hill: Chapters 15,24,26
Sleep: Chapters 3,4,16,23
What God has for me: Chapters 16,27,31,39,40

So there it is. I'm hoping to keep going so eventually there will be a books II-V. This has been cool though. I encourage you to do it yourself at some point, I'm getting a lot out of it.

2 comments:

Paulo J said...

thanks for the great comment, victoria! and thanks for ruminating and illuminating. if you need me to give any lessons to your future man, just let me know. i think i'll open a finishing school for men. ;)

Abri said...

WOW! this is great, Victoria! sorry I didn't comment sooner :) I haven't checked my favorite blogs in a few weeks and you hadn't updated in a while the last time I checked ;) I will be sure to check more often!