The Fellowship of Joy

  Christology and "Humanology" A Prayer on Tap   There is nothing that stands between us and the God of the Universe as we honestly pray.  I need a prayer song and I need it now!   So, the heart has insisted with restless desperation more than once.   Psalm 38 is a template of timely prayer for anyone who has suffered or is suffering. It gives voice and emotion to the cry of the heart that struggles to emerge. It holds a mirror before our souls so that we can know what we may be feeling within.   The psalm takes our innermost thoughts and makes them accessible to us so that we might express them to God.   We do not always have words. The prayers of the ancients provide us with words that we can borrow on the occasion of our pain.    We do not always have a keen sense of what we are feeling. The psalms suggest possibilities.   We can pray these words and feelings with confidence that, whether or not they are accurate for our l...