What are you crying out for? Are you able to express your depth of feeling or hear it expressed by others? This week, Psalm 34 provides a framework for sitting with our deepest longings and calling out to God, the Divine or the Universe to hear them - uninhibited, as we were unconcerned with saving face!
Image from Pixabay.
You can read the whole Psalm - poem or sacred song - here. A paraphrase is below.
Rather than using a lot of words, the Whirlow blog this week invites you to sit with whichever of the words resonate with you - it may be just one or two; or sit with the image above; or listen to Vaughan Williams’ music embedded below. If you have more thinking time, this podcast with Maya Angelou discusses (towards the end) her faith and the way black people might feel freer to cry out, demanding from Jesus what they need.
If you want to, leave space for your deepest longings to come to the surface - they are not always obvious.
What is it you are crying out for? Allow yourself to do so, in whichever way works best.