Advent with the Psalms

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Another Advent devotional? An Advent devotional focusing of all things primarily on the Psalter?  </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Yes.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In an age in which 24/7 in a way never before technologically possible despair and its children fear hate tyranny and violence and their best friend indifference seek our attention if not our allegiance the alternative character of the Advent narrative has never been more needed. Pondering the Incarnation through the timeless voices populating the Psalter has never been more inspiring. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the pages that follow Paul Galbreath Professor Emeritus at Union Presbyterian Seminary provides a clear and compelling invitation to readers to inhabit the laments and praises of the ancient voices of the Psalter in the liturgical context of Advent voices that are echoed by the songs of a young pregnant unwed peasant woman named Mary and a skeptical elderly priest named Zechariah chosen heralds bearing witness </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>in </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the darkness to the new thing God is doing </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>about </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the darkness. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Galbreath invites his readers on a prayerful journey into the Psalms as a reliable guide on a unique path through the liturgical season of Advent. He takes us on a complex quest the goal of which is that we be changed possibly transformed. His intent is nothing less than to bring the Living Words of the Psalter into the Light of the Incarnate Word in and for the world in which we live in order to allow the Psalms to open our lives to the beauty and the suffering that surrounds us.   </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He succeeds. </span></p><p><br></p>