Human Is A Verb is a space to explore how bearing God's image invites us to live, love, and become fully human in a world increasingly shaped by disruption. <br/><br/><a href="https://humanisaverb.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">humanisaverb.substack.com</a>
Human Is A Verb Podcast
Claim This Podcastby Julene Tegerstrand, Ph.D.
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Human Is A Verb is a space to explore how bearing God's image invites us to live, love, and become fully human in a world increasingly shaped by disruption. <br/><br/><a href="https://humanisaverb.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">humanisaverb.substack.com</a>
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June 17, 2026
Even Chaos Knows Your Name
<p>Yesterday I got to sit on the paddleboard as the waves rolled under me. It felt like I was carried. It crossed my mind that I could practice this sense of being carried in other aspects of my life. I was captivated by the dancing sunlight on the water. What beauty. This morning a friend asked if I had made a song for Psalm 149 because she is facilitating a retreat and using some of the songs I’ve been creating. Thanks, Nancy!</p><p>Here are the lyrics based on Psalm 149. The Psalm is a joyful, embodied, and earthly praise in which all of creation honors God. All of creation claims dignity, strength, and justice together through naming the goodness of God. I’m really captivated by the idea in this Psalm that even chaos and uncertainty sing out to God.</p><p>I’ve added the song to the “podcast” so it can be easily listened to. Eventually you can search “Everyday Peacemaking Project” on Spotify and find it.</p><p><strong>Chaos Knows Your Name</strong></p><p>Some nights the future feels like fog,The road disappears from sight.I lie awake with all my questionsIn the middle of the night.But the moon climbs up above the harbor,The tide comes dancing to the shore.The world keeps singing all around meLike it has before.And all creation leans toward You,In rhythms I can’t ignore—The stars sing Your name,The sea sings Your name,Everything sings Your name.The mountains sing, the falling rain,Everything sings Your name.And if the wildest waters do,If thunder does the same,Teach me how to trust like thatWhen even chaos knows Your name.The gulls ride high above the breakers,The wind comes laughing through the pines.The river finds its way to oceansWithout a map or sign.The dawn still breaks across the water,Each season holds what You have made.And every living thing around meIs carried by Your grace.And every season points to You,In quiet and in roar—The stars sing Your name,The sea sings Your name,Everything sings Your name.The mountains sing, the falling rain,Everything sings Your name.And if the wildest waters do,If thunder does the same,Teach me how to trust like thatWhen even chaos knows Your name.Maybe I don’t need the answers—I just need to know You’re here.In the crashing waves and driving rain,You are here, You are here.The stars sing Your name!The sea sings Your name!Everything sings Your name!The mountains sing, the falling rain,Everything sings Your name!And if the wildest waters do,If thunder does the same,Teach me how to trust like thatWhen even chaos knows Your name!Even chaos knows Your name!The wind sings.The waves sing.And I will sing.</p><p>More spiritual practices are coming based on scripture in Genesis. More conflict transformation essays are coming too! But first, a few more paddles might be in store for me.</p><p>Peace, Julene</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Human Is A Verb: Julene Tegerstrand, Ph.D. at <a href="https://humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe</a>
April 15, 2026
Let Love Lead Me
<p>Dear Human is a Verb Community,</p><p>I am reading The Cloud of Unknowing this week.</p><p>(God) wants you to lock your eyes on him and leave him alone to work in you. Your part is to protect the door and windows, keeping out intruders and flies. And if you’re willing to do that, just ask him, praying humbly, and he will help you immediately. (Ch 2, Bucher Translation)</p><p>I’ve been sitting with this invitation: lock your eyes on God and let the work of love be done in you. My part is the locking. God’s part is the loving. How much better would my world be if I simply held that division of labor? Guard the door and window of the heart. Stay present. And trust that the loving is already underway. It is easier said than done.</p><p>And yet, there is an invitation to surrender here that something deep in me recognizes and wants.</p><p>When I sat with that image long enough, I wanted to pray it with music. I worked with AI to develop “Let Love Lead Me,” trying to let the Cloud‘s invitation become something I could live into through music.</p><p>This week, I am aware of how much we need, as persons and as a society, for love to lead us. I hope this song encourages you the way it has encouraged me.</p><p>Peace,</p><p>Julene</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Human Is A Verb: Julene Tegerstrand, Ph.D. at <a href="https://humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe</a>
March 26, 2026
We Are Still Here; Psalm 118: Praying with Scripture and Song Episode 7
<p><strong>Dear Human Is A Verb Community-</strong></p><p>In this final episode of the seven-part “Praying with Scripture and Song” series, we pray with Psalm 118, a marching psalm. I imagine a village gathering in the streets to do what Barbara Holmes calls “singing themselves sane” and what Walter Brueggemann calls “risky speech.” We need more of both right now.</p><p>Psalm 118 gives witness to people who knew what it meant to march together, to call for justice, and to remember who they are in the face of violence and injustice. These were not passive people. They were practitioners of communal lament, and they survived together under pressure for a very long time.</p><p>I am tired of the abuse of power in government, in institutions, in churches. And I know I am not alone. Neither are you.</p><p>Through Lectio Divina, breathwork, and the song “<a target="_blank" href="https://suno.com/s/oPoTuue4zVQJOTOO">We Are Still Here</a>,” this episode honors those of us who have been through something and are still going through something. What activists and agents of social change have long understood is that the inner life and the active life are deeply connected. You cannot have outer peace without inner peace. It is precisely when we are grounded inside that we find the capacity to raise our voices together and proclaim: we are still here.</p><p>My prayer is that this episode helps your nervous system settle, and that you find yourself joining the long procession of those who have come before us, and those who will come after, in singing what has always been true: God’s love endures forever.</p><p><strong>A Prayer for a People Who Protest</strong></p><p>Lord, we come to you as a people, a village from separate rooms and separate roads and separate griefs. But together in this, we are joining a prayer that has been spoken across centuries by a people who knew what it was to be threatened and to have their lives on the line, and who stood on the edge of falling and found that you were there.</p><p>So for the ones who feel hard pressed right now, whose bodies know the tight places before their minds have words for it, God, would you bring them into a spacious place? You’ve done it before, so would you do it again?</p><p>For the ones in the streets, the ones placing their bodies in the path of what they believe, you have always been found in that kind of movement. God, would you be with them? Hold what is fragile in them, protect the hope that brought them there.</p><p>And for the ones who have stopped trusting in princes, who have watched the structures they built their lives around fail to hold even when it seems to matter, God, remind them that refuge is still available, that it has always been available, that you have never moved.</p><p>For those whose grief has set up its altars in their bodies, who are carrying things they cannot yet locate or name, let something in them know a little more clearly that the village is with them in it. That they are not alone in the dark.</p><p>We are still here, still crying out, still hoping, still a village, even if we’re scattered, still singing ourselves towards something we cannot yet see. His love endures forever. His love endures forever. Amen.</p><p><strong>About This Series</strong></p><p>This is the seventh and final episode of “Praying with Scripture and Song,” a mini-series exploring contemplative prayer through the ancient practice of Lectio Divina. Each episode invites listeners to slow down, listen deeply, and pray with Scripture alongside music created for the journey. This series is part of Human as a Verb, a podcast about practicing the sacred work of being human—an extension of Everyday Peacemaking, a ministry built around the belief that our inner life and our relational life are deeply connected.</p><p>If you’ve missed a prayer practice in this series, you can access the first four here:</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://humanisaverb.substack.com/p/soften-me-o-god?r=32c4ia">Episode 1, Soften me, Oh God: Psalm 51</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://humanisaverb.substack.com/p/soften-me-o-god?r=32c4ia">Episode 2, Hiding Place: Psalm 32</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/tired-still-walking-lenten-spiritual?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">Episode 3, Still Walking: Psalm 121</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/drop-everything-and-listen-psalm?r=32c4ia&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web">Episode 4, Drop Everything: Psalm 95</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/you-might-be-real-psalm-23-lenten?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">Episode 5, You Might Be Real: Psalm 23</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/humanisaverb/p/wait-for-morning-psalm-130-lenten?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web">Episode 6, Wait for Morning: Psalm 130</a></p><p>Thank you for praying with us through all seven episodes. The village keeps gathering, and we hope you’ll stay with us as Human as a Verb continues.</p><p><strong>Connect</strong></p><p>* Website: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.everydaypeacemaking.org">everydaypeacemaking.org</a></p><p>* Music: Link to <a target="_blank" href="https://suno.com/s/oPoTuue4zVQJOTOO">“We Are Still Here” </a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0MAzBX14MBtxt7gaLLh36l?si=f893030d1305433b">Link to song on Spotify </a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Human Is A Verb: Julene Tegerstrand, Ph.D. at <a href="https://humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">humanisaverb.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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