#Songs Of Praise

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Sing Songs of Praise to Our God

Psalm 145:1-3

I will extol You, my God, O King; and I will bless Your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable.

Psalm 92:1-2

It is good to give thanks to the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, and Your faithfulness every night.

Psalm 33:1-3

REJOICE in the LORD, O you righteous! For praise from the upright is beautiful. Praise the LORD with the harp; make melody to Him with an instrument of ten strings. Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully with a shout of joy. 

Psalm 104:33-34

I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. May my meditation be sweet to Him; I will be glad in the LORD.

[sowhatifiliveinasmalltowninjapan]

Poison Girls

Songs Of Praise (1985)

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The Adicts - Just Like Me

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

God Brings His People Home

1 “Woman, be happy! You have not had any children, but you should be very happy.

“Yes, the woman who is alone will have more children than the woman with a husband.” This is what the Lord says.

2 “Make your tent bigger. Open your doors wide. Don’t think small! Make your tent large and strong, 3 because you will grow in all directions. Your children will take over many nations and live in the cities that were destroyed. 4 Don’t be afraid! You will not be disappointed. People will not say bad things against you. You will not be embarrassed. When you were young, you felt shame. But you will forget that shame now. You will not remember the shame you felt when you lost your husband. 5 Your real husband is the one who made you. His name is the Lord All-Powerful. The Holy One of Israel is your Protector, and he is the God of all the earth!

6 “Like a woman whose husband has left her, you were very sad. You were like a young wife left all alone. But the Lord has called you back to him.” This is what your God says. 7 “For a short time I turned away from you, but with all my love I will welcome you again. 8 I was so angry that for a while I did not want to see you. But now I want to comfort you with kindness forever.” The Lord your Savior said this.

9 “Remember, in Noah’s time I punished the world with the flood. But I made a promise to Noah that I would never again destroy the world with water. In the same way, I promise that I will never again be angry with you and say bad things to you.

10 “The mountains may disappear, and the hills may become dust, but my faithful love will never leave you. I will make peace with you, and it will never end.” The Lord who loves you said this.

11 “You poor city! Enemies came against you like storms, and no one comforted you. But I will rebuild you. I will use a beautiful mortar to lay the stones of your walls. I will use sapphire stones when I lay the foundation. 12 The stones on top of the wall will be made from rubies. I will use shiny jewels for the gates. I will use precious stones to build the walls around you. 13 I, the Lord, will teach your children, and they will have real peace. 14 You will be built on goodness. You will be safe from cruelty and fear. So you will have nothing to fear. Nothing will come to hurt you. 15 I will never send anyone to attack you. And if any army tries to attack you, you will defeat them.

16 “Look, I made the blacksmith. He blows on the fire to make it hotter. Then he takes the hot iron and makes the kind of tool he wants to make. In the same way, I made the ‘Destroyer’ to destroy things.

17 “People will make weapons to fight against you, but their weapons will not defeat you. Some people will say things against you, but anyone who speaks against you will be proved wrong.”

The Lord says, “That is what my servants get! They get the good things that come from me, their Lord. — Isaiah 54 | Easy-to-Read Version (ERV) Easy-to-Read Version Bible Copyright © 2006 by Bible League International. Cross References: Genesis 8:21; Genesis 9:11; Genesis 21:6; Genesis 26:22; Genesis 28:14; Exodus 35:18; 1 Samuel 13:19; 1 Samuel 23:17; Job 28:16; Psalm 30:5; Psalm 56:6; Isaiah 1:26-27; Isaiah 3:10; Isaiah 4:1; Isaiah 6:3; Isaiah 8:17; Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 11:9; Isaiah 14:1-2; Isaiah 25:8; Isaiah 26:20; Isaiah 40:2; Isaiah 49:14; Isaiah 49:21; Zechariah 1:20; John 6:45; Acts 2:39; Galatians 4:27; Hebrews 12:27; James 4:6; Revelation 6:14; Revelation 21:19

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shame The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA 16 May 2023 article + full gallery here

[manwalksintobar]

If They Should Come for Us  // Fatimah Asghar

these are my people & I find them on the street & shadow through any wild all wild my people my people a dance of strangers in my blood the old woman’s sari dissolving to wind bindi a new moon on her forehead I claim her my kin & sew the star of her to my breast the toddler dangling from stroller hair a fountain of dandelion seed at the bakery I claim them too the sikh uncle at the airport who apologizes for the pat down the muslim man who abandons his car at the traffic light drops to his knees at the call of the azan & the muslim man who sips good whiskey at the start of maghrib the lone khala at the park pairing her kurta with crocs my people my people I can’t be lost when I see you my compass is brown & gold & blood my compass a muslim teenager snapback & high-tops gracing the subway platform mashallah I claim them all my country is made in my people’s image if they come for you they come for me too in the dead of winter a flock of aunties step out on the sand their dupattas turn to ocean a colony of uncles grind their palms & a thousand jasmines bell the air my people I follow you like constellations we hear the glass smashing the street & the nights opening their dark our names this country’s wood for the fire my people my people the long years we’ve survived the long years yet to come I see you map my sky the light your lantern long ahead & I follow I follow

[nomadman108]

DAYS OF AMSTERDAM CHANTING: A POEM FROM A CHANT SHARED

Reading the other day about the deeper meanings of the word Amen, a memory surfaced. A memory from the summer of 1971. I was seventeen years old; young yes. I was hitchhiking around Europe, and as for this memory in particular, I was sitting day by day in the Dam Square in Amsterdam. The memory of which we are speaking involves chanting. One day (or it could have been more), chanting, along…

[ngeche-nt]

Songs Of Praise And Worship

[bashamanik]

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[yeslordmyking]

I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples. [ Read devo thought and prayer for this Bible verse ]

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The Adicts - Calling Calling

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Live Review: Shame at New Century Hall in Manchester 11 March 2023

Words: Andy Hughes Saturday night in Manchester and our heart is being tugged in two different directions (a third if you count staying at home and talking to the dog all night). Off Oxford Road, upstairs in the Pink Room at YES, Welsh artist H. Hawkline would be celebrating the release of his latest album ‘Milk For Flowers‘, whilst up the road at New Century Hall, Southerners Shame were set to…

[zebratimw]

"All those empty rooms

We could have been anywhere, anywhere else

Instead, I made a bed with apathy

My heart knew the weight

Ten years worth of dust and neglect

We made our peace with weariness and let it be..."

(Song: The Moon will Sing by the Crane Wives)

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Talking to Oneself  // Denise Levertov

Try to remember, every April, not this one only you feel you are walking underwater in a lake stained by your blood.

When the east wind rips the sunlight your neck feels thin and weak, your clothes don’t warm you.

You feel you are lurching away from deft shears, rough hands, your fleece lies at the shepherd’s feet.

And in the first warm days each step pushes you against a weight, and you don’t want

to resist that weight you want to stop, to return to darkness                   – but treaties made over your head force you to waver forward.

Yes, this year you feel at a loss, there is no Demeter to whom to return

if for a moment you saw yourself as Persephone. It is she, Demeter, has gone                 down to the dark.

Or if it is Orpheus drawing you forth, Eurydice, he is inexorable, and does not look back to let you go.

You are appalled to consider you may be destined to live to a hundred. But it is April,

there is nothing unique in your losses your pain is commonplace and your road ordained:

your steps will hurt you you will arrive as usual

at some condition you name summer:

               an ample landscape,                voluptuous, calm,                of large, very still trees,                water meadows, dreamy                savannah distances,

where you will gather strength, pulling ripe fruit from the boughs, for winter and spring, forgotten seasons.

Try to remember it is always this way. You live this April’s pain now,

you will come to other Aprils, each will astonish you.