Praying the Psalms

Wellspring Mini-Retreats through the Summer

 

Join Wellspring Ministry  the third Mondays of June, July and August for a time of solitude and refreshment in the Lord through praying the Psalms.   This is a time to walk, to sit under a tree, to pray…

Eugene Peterson – “When we pray the Psalms and are trained in prayer by them, we enter into this centuries-long experience of being the people of God.”  … “The Psalms come from a people who hear God speak to them and realize that it is the most important word they will ever hear spoken.  They decide to respond.  They answer.” 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer  – “Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian Church.  With its recovery will come unexpected power.”

Walter Brueggeman  - “The agenda and intention of the Psalms is considerably at odds with the normal speech of most people” … ”Most Psalms can only be appropriately prayed by people who are living at the edge of their lives, sensitive to the raw hurts, the primitive passions, and the naïve elations that are at the bottom of our life.”…[praying the Psalms] asks us to depart from the closely managed world of public survival to move into the open, frightening, healing world of speech with the Holy One”

Location:

Heil Valley Ranch Open Space (West of Longmont on Lefthand Canyon Rd. – Meet in the main parking lot)

 Time:

6:30-8:00 PM

 

Dates: 

3rd Mondays of the month through the summer

June 21, 2010

July 26, 2010 (Note the new date for July: 4th monday)

August 16, 2010

 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.  Ps 63:1

 For information contact Dave Gifford or Scott Toillion at Wellspring Ministry  Http://wellspring1.wordpress.com.  Feel free to leave a question with this blog.

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