Blessings, blessings, blessing to all! Just wanted to send some encouragement your way. The encouragement is not only from Psalms but, from a great servant of the Lord - Phil Wickham. Phil has a new CD out titled "Cannons." I would prayerfully and seriously recommend purchasing a copy. I happen to love the book of Psalms and use a reading of Psalms every day along with my quiet time/bible study. I put Phil Wickham's music in the Psalms category. Truly the Lord is speaking to our generation through Phil's God songs. I know they will bring Christ's truth and hope to your heart. Praying you're keeping God close and growing with Him today. Remember, growth requires faith (present active participle faith)! That is, faith as a verb, not just a noun. Faith doesn't just come on the mountaintops of our lives but, also in our valleys. The Lord will meet you there, wherever there is. As a matter of fact, He's already there waiting for You. He knows you. He made you. His promises are real, alive, and active - not some old, irrelevent, out dated text. He's talking to you and me - here, now. Consider Pslams 139:1-16

     "O Lord, You have searched me and You know me.                                         You know when I sit and when I rise;                                                              You perceive my thoughts from afar.                                                              You discern my going out and my lying down;                                                  You are familiar with all my ways.                                                                    Before a word is on my tongue You know it completely, O Lord.                   You hem me in - behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.          Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.                  Where can I go from Your spirit?                                                                    Where can I flee from Your presence?                                                            If I go up to the heavens, You are there;                                                             If I make my bed in the depths, You are there.                                                If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side sea,
 even there Your hand will guide me,  Your right hand will hold me fast.              If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me                                                        and the light become night around me,"                                                           even the darkness will not be dark to you;                                                      the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.                         For You created my inmost being;                                                                 you knit me together in my mother's womb.                                                    I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;                              Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.                                             My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place.        When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,                                     Your eyes saw my unformed body.                                                                 All the days ordained for me were written in Your book                                  before one of them came to be.

    Be a prisoner - a prisoner of HOPE! Hope in Christ Jesus. It is so worth it. For real. :) God bless you wherever you are today   -   Melody M. in Missouri