Prayers from the Darkness

The Difficult Psalms

By: Lyn Fraser

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Paperback | 1 October 2005

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The "difficult psalms" which amount to more than a third of the Psalter, shock us with their cries of pain, anger, and alienation. They call on God for revenge on their enemies and mercy for themselves. Lyn Fraser, following the lead of Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann, shows how to integrate these "psalms of disorientation" in Sunday morning worship, pastoral care, and any situation of extreme need.

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"Lyn Fraser’s book, Prayers from the Darkness: The Difficult Psalms, is a scholarly and practical guide for assisting people in distress. By utilizing Lyn’s use of the psalms of lament, chaplains and spiritual providers can guide a patient or parishioner in voicing distress and doubt, leading to a place of hope and clarity.

Teaching as a chaplain supervisor for twelve years, Prayers from the Darkness is an essential book in the curriculum as well as in my work as a hospice and palliative care chaplain."

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Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Psalms as Transformative	p. 13
From Disorientation to New Orientation	p. 17
Corporate Worship
Yours Is the Day, Yours Also the Night: The Difficult Psalms	p. 21
Those Awful Ones	p. 22
Psalms of Disorientation in Corporate Worship	p. 27
Into the Light	p. 30
Remember Your Congregation: Psalms in Communal Prayer and Worship	p. 33
Psalms of Lament: What We Lose	p. 35
Psalm 44	p. 39
Psalm 64	p. 40
Preaching the Psalms	p. 41
Special Services and Church Programs	p. 44
Pastoral Care
My Heart Is Stricken: Ministering to the Terminally Ill and Bereaved	p. 53
Psalms and the Terminally Ill	p. 54
Mortality	p. 57
Healing without Cure	p. 58
Bereavement	p. 60
Out of the Depths I Cry To You: Illness, Aging, and Other Serious Loss	p. 65
Intuition and Responsibility	p. 69
Psalm 137	p. 70
Conversation Patterns and the Psalms	p. 73
Other Pastoral Care Applications	p. 75
Aging	p. 75
Chronic and Degenerative Illness	p. 76
Divorce	p. 78
Loss of Employment	p. 80
Then I Spoke With My Tongue	p. 82
Like a Lonely Bird on the Housetop: Adolescence and the Psalms	p. 83
Using the Psalms with Youth	p. 88
A Ministry of Affirmation	p. 92
Personal Prayer Life
Let My Prayer Enter into Your Presence: Praying with the Psalms	p. 97
Write It, Speak It, Shout It, or Rattle It	p. 99
The Practice of Prayer	p. 100
A Personal Journey with the Psalms	p. 102
What We Find, and What We Bring	p. 110
A Psalms Workshop	p. 111
Works Cited	p. 121
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