This episode marks the beginning of a seven-day guided journey through the Darkling Psalter, exploring the slow work of growth and formation.
Spiritual formation does not move in straight lines. It is not a program to complete or a set of steps to master. It is a process—unhasting, yet unresting—by which God shapes a life over time.
It is painful and joyous, and longer than we expect. It is a journey of surrender, rest, and trust, as much as it is one of labor, perseverance, and dying to self.
These episodes are offered as one small means God may use in that work—inviting reflection through the psalm renditions found in the Darkling Psalter.
This series unfolds across seven themes of formation: rootedness, deconstruction, surrender, trust, self-denial, reorientation, and, finally, praise. Each episode includes a psalm rendition, a brief word of context, prompts for reflection, and a closing prayer.
May these lines from Psalm 1 become true for you:
“… I will layer ring on ring
As God’s years mark loops in me.
I’ll listen for the whisper of psalms,
And begin what there is to begin.”
Begin with the first episode: Formation as Rootedness
