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 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....

...Without God's powerful Holy Spirit saving me from all this corruption, I wouldn't be able to find Jesus. Now with God's blessings, I can deliver the good Gospel to others like me: the lost ones, the ones that have no guidance, and the ones that have no hope. This chapter in my life was missing a piece, and it was Jesus. But with God's true love, He can help put this missing piece into your life, as he has done to mine. Glory be to God, His name, Jesus. Amen

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.

Many readers are convinced that the Psalms are hopelessly “masculine,” especially given that seventy-three of the 150 psalms begin with headings linking them to King David. In this volume, Denise Dombkowski Hopkins sets stories about women in the Hebrew Bible alongside Psalms 42–89 as “intertexts” for interpretation. The stories of women such as Hannah, Rahab, Tamar, Bathsheba, Susanna, Judith, Shiphrah, Puah, and the Levite’s concubine can generate a different set of associations for psalm metaphors than have traditionally been put forward. These different associations can give the reader different views of the dynamics of power, gender, politics, religion, family, and economics in ancient Israel and in our lives today that might help to name and transform the brokenness of our world. From the Wisdom Commentary series Feminist biblical interpretation has reached a level of maturity that now makes possible a commentary series on every book of the Bible. It is our hope that Wisdom Commentary, by making the best of current feminist biblical scholarship available in an accessible format to ministers, preachers, teachers, scholars, and students, will aid all readers in their advancement toward God’s vision of dignity, equality, and justice for all. The aim of this commentary is to provide feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that explicitly mention women. A central concern is the world in front of the text, that is, how the text is heard and appropriated by women. At the same time, this commentary aims to be faithful to the ancient text, to explicate the world behind the text, where appropriate, and not impose contemporary questions onto the ancient texts. The commentary addresses not only issues of gender (which are primary in this project) but also those of power, authority, ethnicity, racism, and classism, which all intersect. Each volume incorporates diverse voices and differing interpretations from different parts of the world, showing the importance of social location in the process of interpretation and that there is no single definitive feminist interpretation of a text.