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Psalm 36—The clouds are not higher than the measure of God's love, nor the stars, nor the farthest flung distant folly of hope.
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 • Andy Patton
Psalm 47—Ring the words on your hollow heart’s bell.
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 • Andy Patton
Psalm 29—Everything in the wide home of the world flings Godward, crying, “Glory!”
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 • Andy Patton
Psalm 2—Don’t ask for answers; ask for waiting. You barely know the meaning of things.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, or Instagram. Why do the lost nations rage and rally Devices against the living God? The kings of the earth…
 • Andy Patton
Psalm 8—I am thistledown the wind has taken, yet the lives of stars are nothing to me.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Youtube, or Instagram.Lord, even the air echoes your name. The river thrums with it. The bright mountains tower it…
 • Andy Patton
Psalm 38—I chewed black thoughts like cracked bones and made a meal of my sin’s marrow.
God, in your anger, don’t set me aside. I suffered the length of your chastening. Your arrows have fallen all around me. Your hand pressed me into the…
 • Andy Patton
Psalm 27—Where things are barren, but he is near.
The Lord is my light in dark And my salvation in danger. What other force should make me fear? The Lord is my shelter. How could dread ever dog me? What…
 • Andy Patton
"How Do You Write the Darkling Psalter?" An Interview with the Mind Gallery
I haven’t done much talking about the process behind the Darkling Psalter, or the thinking that sits underneath it, so I thought this conversation with…
 • Andy Patton
Psalm 1—I will layer ring on ring as God’s years mark loops in me.
I came to the garden to listen and wait, To walk in the way, to leave my mistakes. The word growled in me day and night. I writhed and raged.
 • Andy Patton
Psalm 43—It wasn’t away from my wreck that I found you, but in the middle of it.
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 • Andy Patton
Psalm 25—Is the friendship of the Lord nearness as I come apart?
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 • Andy Patton
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Psalm 17—A Fulgurite Among a Million Sands
I have asked before And I will ask again: hear me. This prayer is all I can manage, But it rises from an honest heart. Winnow me and claim what remains…
 • Andy Patton
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