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Healing Psalms: The Dialogues with God That Help You Cope with Life

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I looked forward to having this book in my resource library, because I am in training as a hospital chaplain and this sounded fabulous.

What I found, unfortunately, was not a dialogue with God about healing, but a diatribe by the author about evil-doers getting what's coming to them. I felt like I was learning how to be a better finger-wagger or how to keep my feet steady upon the Moral High Road.

This will be a good fit for people who want black-and-white, us vs. them answers to difficult questions. For me, working as I do with people of different faiths, different social backgrounds, and different illnesses, this was not a match.

It's not healing, but there's lots of moralizing. If you want proof of why you're better than your neighbor, this is the book for you.

Two stars because it does include all the Psalms and the author wrote a clear message. It also has a great Table of Contents, which I found to be more helpful to me in applying the Psalms than the author's comments.