Psalms of an Ordinary Woman II continues to share how God’s love and grace, allows His people to find joy in the midst of life’s challenges. This book is for anyone seeking spiritual comfort in a challenging world. Do not let the briars and entanglements of this life keep you down. For those who ask, God provides showers of blessing.

Psalms of an Ordinary Woman shares the ups and downs of life guided by the grace of God. Though we walk with an eye on heaven and both feet on the earth, life’s roads are seldom easy. This gift of psalms is for anyone seeking spiritual comfort in a challenging world. Do not let yourself be trapped in the trenches. Lift your face and enjoy the breezes of blessing, for God empowers us to live with joyful victory.

Psalms of an Ordinary Woman shares the ups and downs of life guided by the grace of God. Though we walk with an eye on heaven and both feet on the earth, life's roads are seldom easy. This gift of psalms is for anyone seeking spiritual comfort in a challenging world. Do not let yourself be trapped in the trenches. Lift your face and enjoy the breezes of blessing, for God empowers us to live with joyful victory....

You hold in your hands a book of rare gravitas. From "the controlled wreckage of our lives" to "the cancer of hungry children," Colleen Powderly's PSALMS FROM AN ORDINARY WOMAN grapples honestly with societal horrors, whether poverty and gun violence or misogyny and racism. Yet, despite disability, fear, and a loneliness she holds close, she finds "patience to see stars from different ground"-and ultimately triumphs having also found "the self who prizes beauty" that we, too, may discover it . We learn as she did "you must first belong to yourself." Powderly perhaps describes Psalms best: "This [is a] work of truth & beauty." We, too, are now better equipped to survive any "pulped promise" that comes our way. I am profoundly grateful for her courage and wisdom.--Karla Linn Merrifield

Meditations on the Psalms helping women to express their feelings and grow in their faith. Many of us suppress our feelings because we’re worried they are ungodly. Others of us are so led by our emotions that we let them dominate everything, including our faith. In these honest, personal and uplifting meditations on 24 selected psalms, Courtney Reissig looks at emotions we all experience, ranging from shame, anxiety, and anger through to gratitude, hope, and joy. For each, she shows how the psalms give us permission to acknowledge how we feel before God, and how they can help us to use those feelings productively and faithfully. This inspiring book will give women a language to cry out to God in order to help them process their feelings, as well as help them to grow in their faith. Can be used as a daily devotion.

Following the familiar and powerful style of the biblical Psalms, Gateley openly reflects on her own life and ministry, and ultimately on the nature of faith itself. With a poetOs eye and a believerOs heart, Gateley reveals the metaphysical in the practical, the mystical in the ordinary, the divine in the human. Her psalms are a call to recognize GodOs presence in each of our lives.

Psalms in Ordinary Voices is an exciting new collection of the Bible's 150 Psalms, each rewritten in contemporary language by an "ordinary" person. The authors are teachers, daycare providers, inmates, physicians, plumbers, locksmiths, janitors, children, artists, hair stylists, secretaries, pastors, a homeless man, and a sheriff, among others. A portrait of the writer in his or her everyday environment accompanies each Psalm. Together, the words and images reveal the beloved Psalms as both timeless and timely. Down-to-earth and deeply moving, Psalms in Ordinary Voices is filled with images, metaphors, hopes, and visions that build on and refresh the Psalms. A decade in the making, this book was created by Rev. Dr. Andrea Ayvazian, who conceived the project and edited the text, and photographer Ellen Augarten, whose images give insight into each writer's background.