Week 21 Psalm 1-150
It’s the 142nd day of 2025.
Back on January 1 after I read Psalm 1 I got a fresh sheet of paper. At the top I wrote: 2025 Psalms. Below that I wrote the number 1. Now 142 days & 4 1/2 columns later I wrote the number 150. I made the list for two reasons. One was to keep track of what psalm I’d read. The other was to look for highlight psalms – if a psalm was exceptional it got a checkmark . I look at the list now and see that I checkmarked 11 out of the 150 psalms: 1 8 15 16 33 34 37 49 73 103 & 139.
I’ve been reading the same bible for several years and with it I red underlined psalms I thought were good. So when I remember that I decide to cross-check and compare Then & Now. I page through my bible looking for red-underlined titles. There are twenty-five: 16 19 20 31 32 34 36 37 39 42 44 46 49 50 51 65 66 73 78 89 90 103 106 139 & 145.
I see that Psalms 16 34 37 49 73 103 & 139 are on both lists.
Looking at those seven psalms I don’t know what to make of it. I don’t think I can draw any definitive conclusions. About all I can say is that seven psalms that I liked in 2025 were psalms that I liked in the past.
One other thing I notice is that psalm 73 is the only one with two checkmarks on my list. And I was surprised to see in my print bible it was red-underlined twice. So Psalm 73 impressed me on more than one occasion.