Hi, I'm Shelby Abbott, and this is Psalms for Christmas Time, a podcast mini-series from

Family Life with pastor and author, Dane Orland.

Dane is written a book in the Lord I Take Refuge, 150 daily devotions through the Psalms.

And all this month, with a gift of any amount, not only will your donation be matched, we'll

send you a copy of the book to dive deeper into the Psalms and stir your affections for

Jesus Christ.

To learn more about how to give, visit familylifetoday.com.

Dane, thanks so much for being here with us.

Tell me to start before we get rolling into our first episode of this mini-podcast.

What was your heart behind this book in the first place?

Why did you decide to sit down and write this?

Great to talk with you too, Shelby, thank you, brother.

And the heart behind it really was to take the Psalms in one hand.

And our fallen, struggling, discouraged, sinful, fickle, up and down human hearts on the

other hand, and connect the two.

Build some bridges between the two so that we are actually drawing in the refreshing life-giving

oxygen of the Psalms for our actual lives, not airbrushed Facebook lives, but our actual

lives where we're at all the time.

And the Psalms really, in so many ways, give us permission to act the way that you just

described because we see it splashed across the pages of the Psalms everywhere, right?

Exactly.

I mean, there is no human condition that is not covered by the Psalms.

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