64 Emotions: Writing Your Own Psalm

The Place We Find Ourselves

Adam Young

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What would it look like to begin writing—and praying—your own psalms? When we are feeling big feelings, it can be very healing to put words to those feelings and then to pour the feelings out in prayer. By writing and praying your own psalms, you can facilitate integration in your brain and liberation of your heart. I’ve developed a guide entitled How to Write Your Own Psalm which you can access from my website.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, it's Adam. Before launching into this episode, I'd like to invite you to an
0:05.9	upcoming Zoom conference that I am doing with Kathy Lorzel on Saturday, May 13th. The purpose of
0:13.3	the conference is to equip you to engage another person's story. In other words, Kathy and I are
0:19.5	going to teach the art and the science behind how to engage another person's story well.
0:26.0	You can sign up for the conference at my website, adamioncounseling.com. The cost is 129 and if you
0:33.4	can't make it on May 13th, you will still get access to the video recording of the conference for
0:39.4	three months. I hope to see you there and now let's dive into today's episode.
0:45.3	Welcome back to the place we find ourselves podcast. I'm Adam Young and today's episode is about
0:51.6	what to do with the big emotions inside. Last time we talked about the songs and our emotions,
0:58.9	specifically we noticed that the raw gritty language of the songs introduce you to yourself,
1:06.6	to your own heart. Reading the songs will help you know and put words to what you are feeling
1:14.1	during times of extremity like we are in right now. But my main point in the last episode was to
1:20.3	invite you to write your own song. To that end, we looked at three of the elements that are common
1:27.6	to most songs and those three elements are first intimate address. You call out to your God,
1:34.6	a personal God who is listening. Second, complaint. This is where you tell God just how troubled your
1:41.3	life truly is and third is petition, which is a nice polite word for the insistent demand that
1:48.5	the Psalmist brings to God such as rescue me or deliver me or help me in this particular area.
1:56.5	That's a summary of where we went last time. Today I want to talk very specifically about
2:03.6	how to write your own Psalms and more importantly how to pray the Psalms that you write.
2:11.6	Some years ago Anne Weems wrote a book called Psalms of Lament. It's a collection of prayers that she
2:22.0	prayed in the aftermath of the death of her 21 year old son. And the reason the book came about is
2:29.5	because Anne was friends with Walter Bergamon and when Anne was overwhelmed with grief, with rage,
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