Pastors' Bible Study - Pause: Spending Lent with the Psalms

Lent is an ideal time to step back and reflect on the deeper movements of the spirit. The season encourages us to consider a different pace - one of slowing down, noticing, pausing - than what our dominant culture values. Join Pastors Dave, Meghan, and Troy in taking up the spiritual practice of encountering, sinking into, and deeply engaging with one psalm each week during Lent and Holy Week.

Each chapter of Elizabeth F. Caldwell's book, Pause: Spending Lent With the Psalms, which will guide our study, helps readers to connect an image drawn from a psalm, such as paths, faces, blessing, tables, waiting, thanksgiving, listening, being alone or abandoned, and hands, with their own lives. At the close of each chapter, readers are invited to try a different prayer practice to help them continue to reflect on the theme and psalm each day. This intentional engagement - without feeling burdensome - opens just enough space and time for a creative spiritual practice to flourish, sustaining the life of faith during the Lenten season in ways that can make a difference in God’s world.

We encourage you to order a copy of the book yourself (links will be provided in an email following registration), though the church can order you a copy for $13. Scholarships may be available.

For more information, contact Deacon Troy Sims (tsims@williamsburgumc.org).