2. חֶסֶד hesed (Hebrew) covenant faithfulness, loving-kindness, unfailing love, steadfast love…

3. “What must be said … is that the Psalms are poems, and poems intended to be sung: not doctrinal treatises, nor even sermons. … Most emphatically the Psalms must be read as poems; as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric poetry.

4. They must be read as poems if they are to be understood; no less than French must be read as French or English as English. Otherwise we shall miss what is in them and think we see what is not.” – C.S. Lewis

6. “We no longer walk barefoot in the grass. We no longer walk through the forest and see what is right in front of us. Our livelihoods are not linked to the Earth. We have domesticated nature.” – Wendell Berry

8. “God is only originally good, good of himself. All created goodness is a stream from this fountain, but Divine goodness has no spring…. God only is infinitely good…. God is only perfectly good…. The goodness of God is the measure and rule of goodness in everything else. God only is immutably good…. There is not such a perpetual light in the sun as there is a fullness of goodness in God.” - Stephen Charnock