ITEMS OF INTEREST December 29, 2008 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Ben Patterson, Colum Lynch, The Search Institute

IT IS NO ACCIDENT that the great prayers of the book of Psalms are also songs. They are the sheet music, the score and libretto of prayer. They are the building blocks for the music of eternity. ...

Prayer is more than a means to get God to give us what we want. It is a means He uses to teach us to want what He wants. Holy Scripture in general, and the Psalms in particular, teach us who God is and what He wants to give. ...

The Psalms can help us pour out our hearts to God. All the joys, pleasures, hopes, fears, despairs, doubts, heartaches, and longings of which we are capable are mirrored, clarified, sanctified, and transformed in the Psalms, as are all the ways we may pray: supplication, intercession, praise, thanks, lament, and meditation. The Psalms, as many have said, are a mirror; they will reveal you. Yet they are much more. Read them and they will read you. Pray them and they will change you.

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