Since no one else has shared their memorizations experiences with me lately, I’ll take the opportunity to share an experience of my own. This is the great-grandmother of some friends of ours in Romania. I’d like to take you back … Continue reading
The He passage has at least two noteworthy characteristics. The first is that here we have a list of virtually every term that the psalmist uses for God’s word: Your statutes Your law Your commandments Your testimonies Your way Your … Continue reading
I got an encouraging note last month from Carol, who lives in Upper Michigan. It sounds like she’s doing great on the verses. (“Sure,” the cynical among you will say. “She lives in the U.P. What else is there to … Continue reading
The Daleth passage has a tighter structure than many of the other sections of Psalm 119, though that structure may not be immediately obvious. Three of the verses (25, 28, 31) have the psalmist speaking from great affliction; two of … Continue reading
This is our friend Rita and her penguin. She’s the little one in the picture on the left; on the right, she’s with her daughter, Maria Pía, in our house. Rita grew up in Argentina; she and her husband moved … Continue reading
“Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from your law.” What a great and necessary prayer for us all! The truth is that it would be possible to memorize every verse of this psalm without being greatly enlightened … Continue reading
Some of you know my nine-year-old daughter, Andrea. (Here she is with her good buddy, Chino & Pía’s son Malaquías.) I thought about having Andrea memorize the easiest verse or two of each section of Ps. 119 from the Knox … Continue reading
Though verses 9 and 11 are among the best-known verses of the psalm–and rightly so–it seems to me that verse 12 is the centerpiece of the Beth passage, distinguishing itself in a number of ways. It is distinctive first of … Continue reading
Other than verse 115, verses 1-3 are the only verses of Psalm 119 that are not spoken directly to God. (“Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,” says verse 2, not “your testimonies.”) They thus form an introduction for the … Continue reading