Watching and listening to an interview this week (see HERE) of Bono of the Irish Band U2 - and Eugene Peterson, pastor, teacher and author (who translated the Bible - as The Message), I realized again that I too am challenged and haunted by the Psalms.

I love the Psalms and wish we could sing and pray them (or at least read them) more often in both private and corporate settings, as God's People.They are raw and brutally honest - cries of the heart; and yet full of reverence and flooding over with 'the fear of the Lord.'

I loved it when Eugene suggested that we need to learn 'to cuss' without cussing, for in a sense that's what the psalm-writers do. Great stuff!

And here's a short video I prepared today, suggested by several verses.