Psalm 3

It's 8:10 AM on Thursday morning and I have just finished a late session of centering prayer on the meditation cushion. Much earlier today, around 1:30 AM, I listened to three versions of Psalm 3 on YouTube. In the first version, "the canting (singing) is done by a Sephardi Jew reciting the Tehillim (Zabur/Psalms) in Hebrew and the video recording contains an English translation of the text from the New Living Translation." The video is from this channel. The second version is a contemporary worship track from Zac Fitzsimmons Music, while the third version is Gregorian chant from Neumes and Tunes. So far during this Week 29 of 2025, I haven't listened to any music on YouTube (or elsewhere) except for the first three psalms. I am trying to be much more intentional with my YouTube consumption, at least for this week. I am a little bit tempted to try working my way through all 150/151 psalms in a sequence before listening to anything else, but I have doubts that I would be successful. Still, maybe I should try. What else could be more important for me musically right now than listening to all of the psalms for the first time in my born-again Christian life? I hate to set myself up for failure by setting an unrealistic goal, but I don't want to ignore the prompting of the Holy Spirit, either. At this point, I am open-minded. Maybe this is more about weaving a sequential journey through Psalms into the next phase of my musical education. Let's see what happens next as I continue with this new approach to mindful YouTube (music) consumption.