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Go into any bookstore today, and you will find rows and rows of self-help books. Writers of these books will try to tell you who you are, who you think you are, and who you can become.
Some promise self-improvement through diet. Others talk about getting hold of your finances. Still others talk about how to find that perfect life partner.
Books like these have become very popular over the past few decades, but did you know that there is a book more than two thousand years old that does the same thing? It’s the Book of Psalms. According to St. Athanasius the psalms can teach us all about ourselves. In this book, he wrote, “you find depicted all the movements of your soul, all its changes, its ups and downs, its failures and recoveries” (Letter to Marcellinus).
That’s quite a claim—and one worth pursuing. We are so used to the psalms that perhaps we need to step back and take a fresh look at them to see just how well they reflect our lives—and how…
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