__Rediscover the Rich Treasures of the Psalms__ Drawn from Psalms 1-75 • Volume 1   
Sheltering Mercy helps you rediscover the Psalms--through free-verse prayer renderings of their poems and hymns--as a guide to personal devotion and meditation. Its seventy-five prayers will help you quiet your heart before God and welcome you into a safe place amid the storms of life.  
  
"The Psalms provide a limitless treasure for the people of God, and this collection shows just how limitless that treasure is. Combining prayer, poetry, and art, it will richly nourish any who want to grow in their sense of the 'sheltering mercy' of God."  
--__Jeremy Begbie__, Duke University  
  
"This beautiful collection of psalms expressed as poetic prayer reminds us of the relevance of reverence in our daily lives and the hope breathed through even the darkest of sufferings."  
--__Carolyn Weber__, author of Surprised by Oxford and Holy Is the Day  
  
"The prayers in Sheltering Mercy harmonize with the text of Scripture and make it come alive in a whole new way."  
--__Michael W. Smith__, singer-songwriter

__Ryan Whitaker Smith__ is an author and filmmaker from Nashville, Tennessee. His projects include The Jesus Music, a documentary about the history of contemporary Christian music, and film adaptations of the award-winning memoir Surprised by Oxford and G. K. Chesterton's The Ball and the Cross. He has collaborated with his father, Michael W. Smith, on songs, music videos, and concert specials.  
  
__Dan Wilt__ is a songwriter, speaker, educator, and author who has his own teaching ministry in worship and spiritual formation through DanWilt.com. He has served as a pastor and encourager of creative leaders and has written several devotionals, including A Well-Worn Path and Songs Are a Place We Go. Wilt is also a contributing author to Perspectives on Worship: Five Views and an internationally respected communicator on worship and the arts. He lives outside Nashville, Tennessee.

__Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Bible &amp; Devotional)__  
  
Sheltering Mercy helps us rediscover the rich treasures of the Psalms--through free-verse prayer renderings of their poems and hymns--as a guide to personal devotion and meditation.  
  
The church has always used the Psalms as part of its prayer life, and they have inspired countless other prayers. This book contains 75 prayers drawn from Psalms 1-75, providing lyrical sketches of what authors Ryan Whitaker Smith and Dan Wilt have seen, heard, and felt while sojourning in the Psalms. While each prayer corresponds to a particular psalm and touches on its themes and ideas, it is not a new translation of the Psalms or an attempt to modernize or contextualize their content or language. Rather, the prayers are responses to the Psalms written in harmony with Scripture. These prayers help us quiet our hearts before God and welcome us into a safe place amid the storms of life.  
  
This artful, poetic, and classic devotional book features compelling custom illustrations and beautiful hardcover binding, offering a fresh way to reflect on and pray the Psalms.

Rediscover the rich treasures of the Psalms--through free-verse prayer renderings of their poems and hymns--as a guide to personal devotion and meditation.

__Contents__ Introduction  
Psalm 1: River Tree  
Psalm 2: Lord of Nations  
Psalm 3: Heralds of Ungrace  
Psalm 4: Architect of Salvation  
Psalm 5: The House of God  
Psalm 6: God of the Living  
Psalm 7: Shield and Shadow  
Psalm 8: Fashioned from Chaos  
Psalm 9: Native Tongue  
Psalm 10: Until Evil Ends  
Psalm 11: The Path to Joy  
Psalm 12: The Story of Mercy  
Psalm 13: A Voice in the Dark  
Psalm 14: The Side of the Redeemed  
Psalm 15: A Hill of the Heart  
Psalm 16: God of the Feast  
Psalm 17: Justice Plea  
Psalm 18: The Dawning of the Day  
Psalm 19: Night and Day  
Psalm 20: The Blessing of Christ  
Psalm 21: Heir of God  
Psalm 22: Stripped of Glory  
Psalm 23: Further Up and Further In  
Psalm 24: A Fountain Running Over  
Psalm 25: A Hypocrite Hymn  
Psalm 26: Cloaked in Grace  
Psalm 27: Light and Life  
Psalm 28: Wind and Word  
Psalm 29: Living Word  
Psalm 30: Drawn from Death's Door  
Psalm 31: Covenant Keeper  
Psalm 32: The Face of Mercy  
Psalm 33: The Sound of Joy  
Psalm 34: Illumined by Life  
Psalm 35: Strong Lord  
Psalm 36: Patient Chrysalis  
Psalm 37: You Are Wisdom  
Psalm 38: Shattered Portrait  
Psalm 39: Saved by Grace  
Psalm 40: A Testimony to Salvation  
Psalm 41: You See the Poor  
Psalm 42: Seized by Longing  
Psalm 43: Christ Who Saves  
Psalm 44: Broken Family  
Psalm 45: In Union  
Psalm 46: The One Safe Place  
Psalm 47: Blessed Trinity  
Psalm 48: King of New Jerusalem  
Psalm 49: Your Truth  
Psalm 50: Grounded by Gratitude  
Psalm 51: Restorer of Broken Things  
Psalm 52: How Long?  
Psalm 53: Any One of Us  
Psalm 54: Living Sacrifice  
Psalm 55: Open Heart  
Psalm 56: When Strength Fails  
Psalm 57: These Rival Powers  
Psalm 58: Marketplace of Idols  
Psalm 59: Deliver Me from Evil  
Psalm 60: Rebuilder of Ruins  
Psalm 61: Journey Home  
Psalm 62: Quiet Whisper  
Psalm 63: Good and Sustaining God  
Psalm 64: God Will Judge  
Psalm 65: Unrestrained  
Psalm 66: God of All Things  
Psalm 67: Praise, Praise, Praise  
Psalm 68: At Last!  
Psalm 69: The Name That Saves  
Psalm 70: Lord over Death and Darkness  
Psalm 71: Always an Eden  
Psalm 72: A Prayer for Those in Power  
Psalm 73: This Place We Meet  
Psalm 74: Remember Us  
Psalm 75: The Times of Your Knowing

Smith, Ryan Whitaker ;Wilt, Dan

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Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Bible &amp; Devotional)  
  
Sheltering Mercy helps us rediscover the rich treasures of the Psalms--through free-verse prayer renderings of their poems and hymns--as a guide to personal devotion and meditation.  
  
The church has always used the Psalms as part of its prayer life, and they have inspired countless other prayers. This book contains 75 prayers drawn from Psalms 1-75, providing lyrical sketches of what authors Ryan Whitaker Smith and Dan Wilt have seen, heard, and felt while sojourning in the Psalms. While each prayer corresponds to a particular psalm and touches on its themes and ideas, it is not a new translation of the Psalms or an attempt to modernize or contextualize their content or language. Rather, the prayers are responses to the Psalms written in harmony with Scripture. These prayers help us quiet our hearts before God and welcome us into a safe place amid the storms of life.  
  
This artful, poetic, and classic devotional book features compelling custom illustrations and beautiful hardcover binding, offering a fresh way to reflect on and pray the Psalms.

\["Looking for a beautiful devotional book?","Sheltering Mercy features 75 reflections inspired by the Psalms","You'll be welcomed into a safe space to meditate, reflect and be still before God"\]

"Psalm-praying is one of the oldest and most powerful ways of learning to talk to God. Yet the words of the Psalms are distant from us, and Christians are not always sure how to make those ancient words our words. Smith and Wilt provide in this book the kindling for our own Psalm-praying, provoking our response and forming the word of God in our mouths. Pray the words of Scripture and then let their words spark your imagination and slow you down enough to learn the grammar of intimacy with God."

__Glenn Packiam, associate senior pastor, New Life Church; author of The Resilient Pastor and Blessed Broken Given__

"This beautiful collection of psalms expressed as poetic prayer reminds us of the relevance of reverence in our daily lives and the hope breathed through even the darkest of sufferings. Alight on a different poem each day, and find rest in its cadence, restoration in its celebration, and guidance from new songs grown from deep-rooted wisdom."

__Carolyn Weber, author of Surprised by Oxford and Holy Is the Day__

"Over the course of my career, I've spent countless hours laboring over vocal harmonies. There's something beautiful about hearing different, complementary (or consonant) notes at the same time. The prayers in Sheltering Mercy produce a similar result. They harmonize with the text of Scripture and make it come alive in a whole new way."

__Michael W. Smith, singer-songwriter__

"The Psalms have been the headwaters of great English poetry and prayer since they first began to be translated, molding poets from Sir Philip Sidney, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins all the way down to Johnny Cash and Bono. The Psalms get down into the mud of sorrow and lift the broken up into hope and joy, which is why they birthed gospel music and the blues. They will always inspire, and they will never be used up. Sheltering Mercy is yet another faithful child of the Psalms, a beautiful collection of poems arriving at a dark moment, poems unafraid of sorrow and brokenness, delivering hope and joy."

__N. D. Wilson, author of Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl and Death by Living__

"Reading the Psalms is a very good thing to do. Singing the Psalms is even better. But best of all is when we pray the Psalms. For millennia believers have used the Psalms as a school of prayer, as a model for prayer, and as a springboard to prayer. This beautifully crafted rendering of the Psalms gives voice to the cries of our hearts, depth to our intercessions, and breadth to our supplications. Find here refreshment and renewal."

__George Grant, Parish Presbyterian Church, Franklin, Tennessee; author of The Blood of the Moon and The Micah Mandate__

"The Psalms provide a limitless treasure for the people of God, and this collection shows just how limitless that treasure is. Combining prayer, poetry, and art, it will richly nourish any who want to grow in their sense of the 'sheltering mercy' of God."

__Jeremy Begbie, Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Research Professor of Theology, Duke University__

"These exquisite Psalms-inspired prayers give language to my emotions at a time in history when I often find myself at a loss for words. Thank you, Ryan and Dan, for such an incredibly poetic resource!"

__JJ Heller, singer-songwriter__

"A targum is the ancient practice of rewriting sacred text in today's vocabulary. Smith and Wilt creatively apply this historic art form to the Psalms for the purpose of renewing these ancestral cries in every human heart."

__AJ Sherrill, author of Being with God and The Enneagram for Spiritual Formation__

"Praying the Psalms is de facto praying in technicolor. Ryan Whitaker Smith and Dan Wilt's Psalm-based book of prayers, Sheltering Mercy, enables us to pray them in 3D. The anchoring of these prayers in the text of the Psalms, the authors' rich offering of cross-references to other books in the Hebrew Scriptures, and culminating themes in the New Testament, plus references to treasured Christian spiritual classics content, make this volume an invaluable devotional asset."

__Darrell A. Harris, Dean Emeritus of The Chapel, The Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies__

"Sheltering Mercy reads like inspired literature from a friend who is speaking directly to me and my situation. It is filled with a hopefulness that creates a safe space for reflection, one that is so necessary for leaders today."

__Eldon Fry, spiritual director, pastoral counselor, educator, and author of Growing Up Idaho and Spiritual Formation: Attention Along the Way__

"For centuries Christians have repeated the Psalms, not only as prayer but as a school for prayer. In them we learn the patterns of praise, thanksgiving, and lament. In these eloquent meditations and improvisations on the Psalms, Ryan Whitaker Smith and Dan Wilt further that education. We are offered a guide to how these ancient songs can become more fully our own and more explicitly connected to the rest of Scripture."

__Steven R. Guthrie, Professor of Theology &amp; Religion and the Arts, Belmont University__

With prayers and sketches inspired by the Psalms, Ryan Whitaker Smith and Dan Wilt offer a fresh perspective and the opportunity to rest before God as we find a place of peace.

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