Schooled by the Psalms (Christianity Today)

• “Learning to pray is learning to desire the things God wants to give, and then asking him for them… He desires things for us that we may not even desire for ourselves…”
• Psalms was a primary book for learning how to pray for Ben
• “Learning to pray is like playing the violin with virtuosos… in the beginning… it’s all screech and scratch… as time passes, however, he begins little by little to sound more and more like the virtuosos.”  “By praying the Psalms back to God, we learn to pray in tune with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”
• There are “one size fits all” psalms (like 103)
• Conquer guilt (51, 130)