Hello everyone, it's Adam. Before launching into this episode, I'd like to invite you to an

upcoming Zoom conference that I am doing with Kathy Lorzel on Saturday, May 13th. The purpose of

the conference is to equip you to engage another person's story. In other words, Kathy and I are

going to teach the art and the science behind how to engage another person's story well.

You can sign up for the conference at my website, adamioncounseling.com. The cost is 129 and if you

can't make it on May 13th, you will still get access to the video recording of the conference for

three months. I hope to see you there and now let's dive into today's episode.

Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and normally I release

episodes immediately to the place we find ourselves app and episodes become free four weeks later.

However, given the coronavirus crisis, I've decided to release this episode to everyone immediately,

but please consider supporting the podcast financially. You can do that right from my website.

Okay, let's dive in. My purpose today is to invite you into a new relationship with the book of

Psalms during this time of immense social upheaval, fear, anxiety, dread. This is an emotional time. We

are all having big feelings and when we are having big feelings, the place we need to find ourselves

is in the Psalms. When you don't know how to express what's going on inside of you, the place to

turn is the Psalms. When the world has been turned upside down, the place that we as a community

of Christians, the place that we will find ourselves is in the Psalms. So what is your relationship

to the book of Psalms? Do you like the Psalms? Do you tolerate them? Do you find the book of Psalms

hard to understand and therefore not very helpful to your present day-to-day life? Today, I hope to

open up the power of the book of Psalms for a moment such as this. A moment in which the

coronavirus is profoundly influencing each of our hearts, minds, and bodies. And by the end of

the episode, my invitation to you will be, what would it look like to begin writing your own Psalms

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