What if the simplest sound you make — a hum, with no words at all — could become one of the deepest ways you pray?

I’m glad to share my newest book, Melody in Your Heart: Humming as Holy Communion with the God Within. It began, as many good things do, almost by accident — a passing mention in a talk that humming could quiet the body and open the heart. One evening, closing my eyes and simply humming unto the Lord, I found something I didn’t expect: a peace I hadn’t manufactured, a nearness to God that felt less like technique and more like a door quietly opening.

An ancient practice, hiding in plain sight

Melody in Your Heart traces that discovery back through Scripture, the Hebrew word for “meditate” in the Psalms means to murmur, to make a low sound; Paul writes of the Spirit interceding through wordless groans, and of making melody in the heart to the Lord, and forward through a long line of psalmists, desert fathers, and chanting monks who bonded with God this same wordless way. From the biblical foundations and the design of the body, the book moves into the practice itself, step by step, from your first intentional hum to a whole life carried on melody.

Making melody in your heart to the Lord isn’t a metaphor. Sometimes it’s simply a sound.

The book includes a 30-Day Humming Devotional (Hummed Lectio Divina) and a six-session Group Study Guide for those who want to walk through it with others.

$4.00 · Instant PDF download · 162 pages