Training for the Big Race~ The Gift, This Memoery....

THE PSALMS can help us to pray with body, mind, and spirit. The beauty and wonder of creation is writ large in the Psalms; so is encouragement to celebrate God’s praise through movement, dance, body prayer, and music. …
The psalmists wrote out of their daily experiences. Nothing was too mundane or earth-shattering to bring to God, whether it was caused by pain, ecstatic joy, fear, hope, or longing to know holy Presence. …
When something really grabs us, we may be surprised at our capacity to give voice to the experience. The trouble is that all too often our days pass in busyness without pause to acknowledge the divine grace that touches our lives moment by moment.
But if we do stop—even briefly—we notice the gratitude, fear, or other emotion that lies beneath the surface of experience. Out of this awareness we can pray with integrity—and create our own psalms.

– Elizabeth J. Canham
Finding Your Voice in the Psalms 

  People with their minds set on you, you keep completely whole, Steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don't quit.

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.