If you have been looking for somewhere simple and honest to meet God for five minutes a day, this is that place.

This is a daily devotional and journal in one — structured, honest, and unhurried.

For Jewish Women — Drawing Close Through the Psalms. Each day sits beside a quoted line from a Jewish writer across the centuries — kept in their own voice, with a quiet word-gloss underneath so the older language opens rather than closes.

Seven stages across 140 days: Stage 1 — The Turn · Stage 2 — Trusting and Releasing · Stage 3 — A First Step · Stage 4 — Pressing On — The Season · Stage 5 — Personally Known Carried On · Stage 6 — Offering What You Have · Stage 7 — This Stretch.

Anchored by seven small images you will half-recognise from the start: a dawn, open hands, a lamp, a mountain, a vine, a stream, a ring of stars. One quiet picture per stage, gently signposting the journey home.

Inside these pages you will also find:

• Seven things on every day’s page — an Opening line. A Reflect question. A Rest cue for the body. A Today’s Focus. A Touch line. A quoted line from the Psalms or a Jewish writer with a word-gloss. A closing Meditation. The same seven elements, every day, for 140 days.
• Older language, opened in real time — thy becomes your. Thee becomes you. Every classic line — the Psalms in older translation, devotional prose from earlier centuries — carries a small plain-English gloss directly underneath. Nothing is left for the reader to puzzle out.
• Real names, never anonymous — every quoted line is attributed — drawn from a curated corpus of Jewish writers across the centuries and chosen to fit each journal’s shape. The voices are named, the sources are known, and the corpus is wider than any single tradition.
• Liturgical interludes between stages — between the seven sections, the journal slows. A Commentary. A Poem. A Prayer for This Season. A closing Reflection. Real rhythm — not page numbers.
• Borrowed prayers, and yours — selected prayers from saints and faithful authors carry you forward, while A Prayer for This Season pages hold space for the words that are only yours to write.
• One poem per section — short, unhurried passages between stages — small enough to memorise, deep enough to keep returning to.

Sample prompt: “What did you expect nearness to feel like — and is that expectation the thing standing in the way?”

Most devotionals push you to do more. This one settles you into what is already true.

Most evenings end with the same loop running in your head. By mercy, met in your showing up to a quiet daily practice. You may fall asleep without running through what might go wrong. You may let yourself be seen without rearranging your face. Your back may be straight when you walk in. You wake with somewhere to put your attention. Your jaw is not tight when you wake up. You don’t rush there. The structure walks you toward it. Through your daily yes, met in a steady practice — and carried, in the end, by mercy.

Open to day one. Let the practice begin. 140 days from now, you will be glad you did. Open to day one.

Part of the “140-Day Reflective Devotional Journal”.