{"id":14876,"date":"2024-01-12T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/?p=14876"},"modified":"2024-01-13T21:03:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T20:03:56","slug":"in-the-school-of-prayer-with-eugene-peterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2024\/01\/12\/in-the-school-of-prayer-with-eugene-peterson\/","title":{"rendered":"In the school of prayer with Eugene Peterson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here are some extracts on the topic of prayer by Eugene Peterson<\/strong> from his book, Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer<\/a><\/em>.<\/div>\n

 
\n <\/p>\n

I<\/p>\n

What is essential in prayer is not that we learn to express ourselves, but that we learn to answer God. The psalms show us how to answer. (p. 6)<\/p>\n

II<\/p>\n

The practice of Christians in praying the Psalms is straightforward: simply pray through the Psalms, psalm by psalm, regularly. \u2026 That\u2019s it: open our Bibles to the book of Psalms and prayer them \u2013 sequentially, regularly, faithfully across a lifetime. This is how most Christians for most of the Christian centuries have matured in prayer. Nothing fancy. Just do it. The praying itself is deliberate and leisurely, letting (as St. Benedict directed) the motions of the heart come into harmony with the movements of the lips. (p. 7)<\/p>\n

III<\/p>\n

All the psalms are prayers in community: people assembled, attentive before God, participating in a common posture, movement and speech, offering themselves and each other to their Lord. Prayer is not a private exercise, but a family convocation. \u2026 the believing community at worship, at regular times and in assigned places, is the base of prayer. All the psalms were prayed in such communities. … The primary use of prayer in not for expressing ourselves, but in becoming ourselves, and we cannot do that alone. (p. 18-19)<\/p>\n

IV<\/p>\n

Human beings are in trouble most of the time. Those who don\u2019t know they are in trouble are in the worst trouble. Prayer is the language of the people who are in trouble and know it, and who believe or hope that God can get them out. (p. 36)<\/p>\n

V<\/p>\n

We do better to simply enter the sequence of psalms as they are given to us in the Psalms, go from one to the next, one day to the next, one week to the next, taking what comes, learning to enter into what comes, whatever, practicing a sense of the presence of God, deepening that awareness into colloquy* with God. (p. 108)<\/p>\n

 
\n*  colloquy: dialogue, conversation, heart-to-heart<\/p>\n\n

So I answered<\/h3>\n

Psalm 40:1-8<\/a>, The Messag<\/em>e (translated by Eugene Peterson)<\/p>\n

I waited and waited and waited for God.
\n    At last he looked; finally he listened.
\nHe lifted me out of the ditch,
\n    pulled me from deep mud.
\nHe stood me up on a solid rock
\n    to make sure I wouldn\u2019t slip.
\nHe taught me how to sing the latest God-song,
\n    a praise-song to our God.
\nMore and more people are seeing this:
\n    they enter the mystery,
\n    abandoning themselves to God.<\/p>\n

Blessed are you who give yourselves over to God,
\n    turn your backs on the world\u2019s \u201csure thing,\u201d
\n    ignore what the world worships;
\nThe world\u2019s a huge stockpile
\n    of God-wonders and God-thoughts.
\nNothing and no one
\n    compares to you!
\nI start talking about you, telling what I know,
\n    and quickly run out of words.
\nNeither numbers nor words
\n    account for you.<\/p>\n

Doing something for you, bringing something to you\u2014
\n    that\u2019s not what you\u2019re after.
\nBeing religious, acting pious\u2014
\n    that\u2019s not what you\u2019re asking for.
\nYou\u2019ve opened my ears
\n    so I can listen.<\/p>\n

So I answered, \u201cI\u2019m coming.
\n    I read in your letter what you wrote about me,
\nAnd I\u2019m coming to the party
\n    you\u2019re throwing for me.\u201d
\nThat\u2019s when God\u2019s Word entered my life,
\n    became part of my very being.
\n <\/p>\n\n

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\nIn the school of prayer with Michael Mayne<\/a>
\nIn the school of prayer with Ignatius of Loyola<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Especially in Psalm 119, an extended meditation on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "bible"","block_context":{"text":"bible","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/bible\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/show_me_the_way.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/show_me_the_way.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/show_me_the_way.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/show_me_the_way.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14341,"url":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2023\/08\/02\/i-call-on-you-my-god\/","url_meta":{"origin":14876,"position":2},"title":"I call on you, my God","author":"Irene Bom","date":"August 2, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"PDF version \u00a0 Psalm for Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, RCL Year A Psalm 17:1-7, 15 A litany with a sung response alternating with spoken word (preferably with feeling). \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I call on you, my God, for you will answer me Turn your ear to me and hear my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "psalms"","block_context":{"text":"psalms","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/psalms\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/i_call_on_you_my_god_psalm17v6.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/i_call_on_you_my_god_psalm17v6.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/i_call_on_you_my_god_psalm17v6.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/i_call_on_you_my_god_psalm17v6.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11623,"url":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2021\/06\/15\/hear-and-answer\/","url_meta":{"origin":14876,"position":3},"title":"Hear and answer","author":"Irene Bom","date":"June 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"(Photo: Irene Bom) \u00a0 Appealing to God to hear and answer is a recurring theme in the Scriptures. Here are a few examples from the Psalms: Psalm 27:7 Hear my voice when I call, Lord; be merciful to me and answer me. Psalm 55:2 ... hear me and answer me.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "prayer of intercession"","block_context":{"text":"prayer of intercession","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/prayer-of-intercession\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/shadows_on_tiles.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/shadows_on_tiles.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/shadows_on_tiles.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/shadows_on_tiles.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4011,"url":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2018\/01\/18\/from-a-grateful-heart\/","url_meta":{"origin":14876,"position":4},"title":"From a grateful heart","author":"Irene Bom","date":"January 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Photo: Lindy Twaddle) A Prayer based on Psalm 103:1-5 Come! Come praise the eternal God! Let all that is within us \u2014 body, emotions, mind, and will \u2014 praise God\u2019s holy name! Despite our failures, He forgives and releases us. More than any doctor, He heals our diseases. When we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "bible"","block_context":{"text":"bible","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/bible\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/flower_and_bee.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/flower_and_bee.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/flower_and_bee.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/flower_and_bee.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":14315,"url":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2023\/07\/29\/flower-where-you-are\/","url_meta":{"origin":14876,"position":5},"title":"Flower where you are","author":"Irene Bom","date":"July 29, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Opening Prayer \u201cWorship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness\u2026.\u201d Psalm 29:2 \u00a0 O God, whose holiness is not limited to \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0grand cathedrals or saintly persons, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0spectacular mountains or mountain-moving leaders; O God, whose holiness is often discovered in simple everyday places \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and simple everyday folk, plant Your holiness\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "creativity"","block_context":{"text":"creativity","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/creativity\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/collage_flower_tree1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/collage_flower_tree1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/collage_flower_tree1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/collage_flower_tree1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Irene Bom","author_link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/author\/irenebom-com\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/bible\/\" rel=\"category tag\">bible<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/prayer\/\" rel=\"category tag\">prayer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/psalms\/\" rel=\"category tag\">psalms<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/category\/quote\/\" rel=\"category tag\">quote<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"  Here are some extracts on the topic of prayer by Eugene Peterson from his book, Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer.     I What is essential in prayer is not that we learn to express ourselves, but that we learn to answer God. 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