The Darkling Psalter
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Podcast
Notes
Archive
About
Psalm 6—I haunt from room to room. People pat me on the shoulder and don’t know what to say.
LATEST
·
1:59
2:26
Psalm 3—Give us the shelter of your strange light.
My enemies are a storm of seas. They are snapping teeth, an endless, Unkillable, unloveable, unlistening night. I stumble and they laugh. I tuck tail…
Nov 3, 2025
•
Andy Patton
33
6
2
Psalm 32—Lives I thought I’d lost honeycombed and hunched down like winter bees eating my heart's honey.
Innocence is a better world, but I Can hardly imagine the Lord keeps No count against me. I was bent double over My riddle days, wracked and walking The…
Oct 28, 2025
•
Andy Patton
7
2
3:10
Psalm 23—When I meet the shadow falling between the way I wanted and the way I went—I will fear no evil.
The Lord is my shepherd. With him, I lack nothing. He guides me in the last way left— Farthest round and the first home. He walks me to the river And…
Oct 21, 2025
•
Andy Patton
39
5
7
2:10
Psalm 22—God, why have you left me here? I would have traded anything For a glimpse of you.
God, why have you left me here? I would have traded anything For a glimpse of you. Slow syllables that never resolve to words Growl out of me, but no…
Oct 15, 2025
•
Andy Patton
5
1
3:23
Psalm 51—If your love is as true as you say, forget the rest.
Lord, relent.
Oct 4, 2025
•
Andy Patton
23
4
1
3:02
2:37
Psalm 34—I did not know light could ring, nor faith stretch true as a plucked string.
Lord, there is so much to say. I open my mouth and find your praise in it. My life is your boast. May those who are cast off Take comfort and…
Sep 28, 2025
•
Andy Patton
31
6
5
2:54
Psalm 19 Podcast—If you would have light and heat, why are you not more in the sunshine?
The heavens declare the glory of God.
Sep 22, 2025
•
Andy Patton
24
4
Psalm 64—Lord, it is only morning and my needs are already stacked in a long, desperate line.
Lord, it is only morning And my needs are already stacked In a long, desperate line.
Sep 17, 2025
•
Andy Patton
19
2
3
5:12
Psalm 40—Pierce me straight through, and scrawl your lines on the paper walls of my living heart.
Sep 12, 2025
•
Andy Patton
7
2
2:53
Psalm 28—You are there when the grace gathers around the table at dinner, in the hallowed halls of the real world.
Darkling Psalter Podcast
Sep 7, 2025
•
Andy Patton
22
8
2
Launching the Darkling Psalter Podcast
Friends of the Darkling Psalter,
Sep 4, 2025
•
Andy Patton
6
1
2
See all
Top posts
Psalm 34—I did not know light could ring, nor faith stretch true as a plucked string.
Sep 28, 2025
•
Andy Patton
31
6
5
Psalm 23—When I meet the shadow falling between the way I wanted and the way I went—I will fear no evil.
Feb 23, 2025
•
Andy Patton
54
5
5
Psalm 62—Stillness isn’t easy, but it is all I have left.
Jul 24, 2025
•
Andy Patton
49
10
Psalm 28—You are there when the grace gathers around the table at dinner, in the hallowed halls of the real world.
Sep 29, 2024
•
Andy Patton
51
6
7
Psalm 23—When I meet the shadow falling between the way I wanted and the way I went—I will fear no evil.
Oct 21, 2025
•
Andy Patton
39
5
7
Receive every Psalm in your inbox.
Subscribe
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
