Soul-Deep Pleasure

I had to laugh!

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I’ve been reading the Psalms slowly. I’m not the first to do this. I’m pretty sure Psalms was the prayer book for Jesus — and for Paul. People smarter than me think this is the case: they read the Psalms, they sang the Psalms, they prayed the Psalms.

My practice has been to read a psalm slowly, in contemplative tradition, i…