Enter the practice of contemplative prayer with beads, and find your heart shaped and life transformed by an ancient practice. Let your prayer life go deeper!
Buy the BookFor over two thousand years, the Psalms established the primary content and basic rhythm of prayer for the Hebrews and the emerging Christian Church. Medieval Christians shaped both public and private worship around praying the Psalter, developing tools like prayer beads to help focus their prayers.
Modern Christians have largely lost an understanding of how to pray the Psalms, or even the knowledge of how to approach them. Praying through Psalms presents 50 psalms edited especially for use with the tactile aid of Anglican prayer beads – guiding the reader through praying and responding to God’s own invitation to speak to him using his own Word.
"I so much appreciate Cindy’s reminder to slow down and pay careful attention through the use of repetition in each psalm. The first psalm, 4, set the stage by repeating, “Be merciful to me and hear my prayer.” This helped to posture me. What a wonderful reminder as I pray the psalms, as I go throughout my day, as I live and work in the world offering inaudible prayers. This repetition and all the others helped me to still my body and soul and listen to the voice of God in my present moment."
– Cindy Zimmerman, Spiritual Director
"So often, our prayer life seems scattered and thin, like maybe we're only just talking to ourselves within our heads. If only there were a way to get out of our heads and root our relationship with God in the language of the Scriptures and the Spirit's work in the church! Cindy Hamilton's deep life of communion with the Father spills over into this helpful guidebook. Returning to the ancient paths is often the way to renewing life, and Anglican prayer beads can be a powerful help along the journey."
– Rev. Kenneth Robertson, Vicar, International Anglican Church
"The invasion of technology into our souls is leaving us disconnected and hollow, preferring constant stimulation from our gadgets to prolonged and deep engagement with people. It's changing the way we relate to God as well. Cindy Hamilton has done God's people a great service by providing both the guidance and a framework to "sit still" so we can relearn to "be still." Praying Through Psalms will slowly reacquaint you with God's preferred medium of communicating with his people — his still small voice."
– Rev. Fran Sciacca, Director, Hands of Hur, and author of To Walk and Not Grow Weary
"Often our endeavors at prayer are frustrated by our own frenetic thoughts. Praying Through Psalms exercises the organs of disciplined prayer with a more approachable rhythm than any other book of spiritual discipline I know. The practice of this book will orient your soul to God and allow his truth to do its restorative work."
– Rev. Dr. Benjamin Fischer, Rector, Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church and co-author of Dying in Islam, Rising in Christ
Cindy Hamilton is an ordained deacon with the Anglican Church in North America and a trained Pastor of Prayer at Church of the Advent (Denver, Colorado). Cindy has an MA in Christian Studies from Tabor College in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. She has led prayer and Psalms retreats; she trains prayer ministers and has participated in prayer groups around the world. Cindy is the Leader of Prayer for the Diocese of the Rocky Mountains of the ACNA.
The GAFCON movement is a global family of authentic Anglicans standing together to retain and restore the Bible to the heart of the Anglican Communion – whose mission is to guard the unchanging, transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ and to proclaim Him to the world. The relationship of this book’s authors developed through these links between GAFCON churches in Rwanda and the United States.
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