A few years ago, I was gifted this beautiful book by a dear friend, and it has been a constant help to me in practicing the awareness of God’s presence and crying out to Him in everyday moments.

Have you ever closed your Bible and thought, “What did I just read?”

In my twenties, I had aspirations of reading my Bible in a year and fell off the train so many times. Most of the time, it happened when I hit long sections of the Word where I didn’t understand what was happening, I didn’t have a cultural or literary context for the book, or I didn’t see how what I was reading fit into God’s big story.

For a while now, one of my daily disciplines in the Word is to start by reading and praying through a Psalm. It helps focus my mind and heart on who God is as I open the Word, gives me fresh language for prayer, and often meets me right in the middle of an emotion or circumstance I’m walking through. This devotion book by Dane Ortlund includes a short devotion to each Psalm. Every devotion is beautiful, and they help me…