Introduction

During Lent we are focusing our biblical attention almost exclusively on the passages from the psalms, allowing their themes and their spirit to rise up and identify themselves to us. Today we are continuing to gain a greater familiarity with these conversations from the heart. Through song and reading and spoken word the religiosity of the psalmists of old is speaking to us today.

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For the first two Sundays in Lent our attention was on what Old Testament professor Walter Brueggeman called Psalms of Orientation. The reason they're called that is because they hold a definite set of presuppositions about life and about God which consistently come through. Two of those fundamental presuppositions are key: Happiness in life is directly correlated with living in harmony with Go…