Mulled Psalms is a book of poetry. Using the metaphor of mulled cider or wine, it is a collection of carefully brewed, distilled, and spiced beverages. The basic ingredient in each of these 150 poems is the biblical psalm of the corresponding number. Thus, the length, subject, tone, and other aspects of a specific poem resemble that of the original psalm. Because each psalm was mulled individually, at varying times and temperatures of Spirit-fire, each comes alive as a new entity. Many are prayers. All address or relate to God, the ultimately unnamable one, whom all humans yearn to know and name. Capital letters are used for all nouns and pronouns, and for many other parts of speech, referring to God.
Marjorie Gray’s compressed, muscular language consistently startles into insight. Intriguingly fresh, yet biblical, names for God and thoughtfully modernized images challenge the reader to enter these ancient poems as living, ever renewing texts. Gray’s achievement here is remarkable and rare on both a literary and devotional level. So psalm lovers will surely want Mulled Psalms on their shelves as a resource for study, prayer, and worship. But this is also a winsome volume for readers who have not yet fallen into the psalms, who have wondered what all the fuss is about.
—Debra Rienstra, author of So Much More
'"Mull' means ponder, reflect, contemplate. Here's a life-giving invitation to the Bible's 'prayer book'--to meditate on all the stuff of life's experiences: your lures and longings, your angst and anger, your hopes and hungers. Marjorie Gray has not done all the mulling for you, but draws you to your own pondering and psalming. Such honest-to-God praying will surely make a difference in your relationships."
- Kent Ira Groff, author of Honest to God Prayer
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