“One move we make is out of a settled orientation into a season of disorientation. This move is experienced partly as changed circumstance, but it is much more a personal awareness and acknowledgment of the changed circumstance. This may be an abrupt or a slowly dawning acknowledgment. It constitutes a dismantling of the old, known world and a relinquishment of safe, reliable confidence in God’s good creation. The movement of dismantling includes a rush of negativities, including rage, resentment, guilt, shame, isolation, despair, hatred, and hostility. It is that move that characterizes much of the Psalms in the form of complaint and lament.”
--Walter Brueggemann
http://ref.ly/o/spiritltypsalms/25104 via the Logos Bible Android app.
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