The first section of Psalms has been called the Genesis Psalms.

They help us to realize that every good thing begins with God.

The Psalms provide a roadmap for the journey ahead.

In them, we learn to bring every emotion and experience of

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We live in a world that has become so noisy and so accustomed to noise that I'm afraid we're losing our silence.

We're losing the ability to even be still and be quiet.

Maybe we're afraid of what we'll think about in the silence.

Maybe we're afraid of what God will say to us in the silence.

We've come to Psalm 39 where David says,

I said, I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue.

I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.

I was done with silence.

I held my peace, even from good, and my sorrow was stirred.

He said, there was a moment in my life where I realized that the best thing for me to do was just put my hand over my mouth.

There was a moment where I thought, you know, the best thing for me is not to say anything.

I remember my pastor saying years ago that discouraged people usually overstate their problems.

That's very true, isn't it?

We get so consumed to something, and we just want to speak and we want to be heard.

We want to say something.

We even like to excuse it this way.

Well, I'm going to vent a little bit.

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