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For generations, Christian people have read and sung the psalms. Jesus knew and loved the Psalms and He often quoted from them. There’s a depth, a rawness, a realness, about the words that we find in this book. 

The Psalms show us what it looks like to live in this world as a person of faith. The Psalms engage not with the world as we would like it to be, but with the world as it is.

The early Christians lived in uncertain times. The first century Roman world was a world where vulnerabilities of many kinds were never far away. These were days when few people lived beyond their fifties, and when supply chains of goods and produce meant whole regions could easily tip into periods of shortage and famine. These were days when any sense of medicine or healthcare was in its absolute infancy, and when centres of population had little by way of defence against frequent natural disasters.