St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, Epc

As we delve into the proper content of our summer series, Psalms! The Voice of The Heart, exploring the language of the emotions through the lens of the prayer book, I find myself experiencing and engaging all kinds of emotions in my own heart. There’s gladness, of course – I genuinely enjoy preaching, and as a musician the Psalms lay special claim to my affections. But there’s also fear in talking about emotions to emotional beings, with all of our baggage we bring. There’s a bit of loneliness thinking of how I’ll miss bouncing ideas off my coworkers as we’re all traveling in and out over the next few weeks for church trips and vacations. There’s also some shame when I think about how daunting these texts and concepts are and how limited I often feel before the colossal Word of God. But most of all, what I feel is anger.If that sounds strange to you, maybe it’s because we typically think of anger in one of two caricatures: the first is the kind of blind vindictive rage, bitterness, or resentment that destroy