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I couldn\u2019t focus my mind on anything except the Psalms. I found words for how I felt.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Find out how the Psalms give us words to our emotions on this edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife This<\/em> Week. I\u2019m Michelle Hill. You know, King David was a man who, well we would say was in touch with his emotions. But in some ways, he was self-aware. In fact, he wrote a good portion of Psalms; and in that book, we find a <em>myriad<\/em> of emotions: ranging from despair\u2014you know, where he says, \u201cMy God, my God, why have You forsaken me?\u201d\u2014to the pleas\u2014where he\u2019s asking, \u201cDon\u2019t you hear me, God?\u201d\u2014to anguish to repentance. You know, David was <em>honest<\/em> with God about what he was <em>feeling<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs we start this new year, I wanted to spend some time getting ahold of my emotions; and I\u2019m noticing the pattern to David\u2019s cries to God. He cries out; and he shares his pain\/he shares his suffering; but by the end of most of the Psalms, he\u2019s thanking God and he\u2019s praising Him. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCourtney Reissig recently spent a lot of time in the Psalms. She wrote a book, a book that just hits the bookstores <em>this week<\/em>! It\u2019s titled <em>Teach Me to Feel: Worshiping Through the Psalms in Every Season of Life<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCourtney came into our studios, and we talked about how the Psalms inform our feelings. I was asking Courtney, \u201cJust why do we have these emotions?\u201d\u2014because for a long time, while I was growing up, I just sort of stamped down my emotions\u2014you know, \u201cDon\u2019t even show them to anybody else.\u201d I asked Courtney\u2014I said, \u201cWhy emotions and why is this a good thing to share our emotions?\u201d Here\u2019s my conversation with Courtney.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Previous Interview]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I think the primary reason why we have emotions and feelings is because we are created in the image of God. God created us to bear His image\/to tell a story about who He is to a watching world. One of the ways we do that\u2014is that God feels; God feels something about His creation, so He loves His creation. He loves His created beings; He feels sadness when they sin against Him, when they face pain and difficulty. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen we look at Jesus, Jesus felt life deeply, both in His incarnation\/His humanity but also in His deity. He felt what it meant to live in a broken world; He felt what it meant to be God living in a broken world. We feel and we have emotions, because God created us in His image. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, some of us have stronger emotions than others. [Laughter] I am one of those people who has\u2014my husband always jokes that I have very high highs and very low lows; and usually everyone knows\u2014in my sphere of influence\u2014knows when I\u2019m having those highs and those lows. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo those\u2014obviously, living in a broken world, our feelings are broken and our emotions are broken by living in a broken world. But that does not mean that they\u2019re sinful, in and of, themselves. We, as Christians, have to learn how to harness and have our emotions shaped by being created as His image bearers; and ultimately, shaped by the Word of God and by who God has first created us to be as image bearers but, also, who God\u2019s making us more like Christ\/more into His image through salvation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> How do we go about shaping that? I\u2019m thinking of almost like a clay pot, where God is trying to shape us and mold us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> But how do we go about doing that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I think one of the ways that that happens is through the process of sanctification; so through the work of the Holy Spirit in our life, God is renewing us and making us more like his Son, Jesus. That is going to shape our emotions, and grow our emotions, and deepen our emotions, and make them more God-like emotions. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen you think of anger, anger is not sinful, in and of itself. We often sin in our anger; we are not God-like in our anger. God is angry. We should be angry about the things that God is angry about: like injustice, and sin, and the effects of living in a fallen world. Very often, our anger manifests itself in ways that are for our own glory and not God\u2019s glory. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe way we\u2019re re-made into the image of Christ\u2014through Christ\u2019s work on the cross and through the sanctifying work through the Holy Spirit, and the way that that happens is through the Word incarnate\u2014we <em>know<\/em> what God is like. Through knowing God through His Word, and through knowing who Jesus is and how He displayed His emotions, we can be re-made into the image of Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s where I think the Psalms are helpful because, in the Psalms, we see a full range of emotions. We see that process of sanctification in the Book of the Psalms. We see people responding to the reality of life in a broken world. I think that the way we grow in our emotions is staying as close to God as possible. The way we stay close to God is through His Word; the Psalms help us in that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Now, you have written a book on the Psalms\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I have.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014<em>Teach Me to Feel.<\/em> Congratulations; it\u2019s just out this week. In fact, you\u2019ve been able to pick up the hard copy that <em>I<\/em> was given.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> So that\u2019s exciting to see <em>your excitement<\/em> over a book that has taken so long, I\u2019m sure\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014months and months of just pouring over the Psalms, and really taking the time to study and to figure out what David and these other players are saying. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou say that the Psalms are a mirror into our soul. Talk to us about that: \u201cHow are the Psalms a mirror for us?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I think the Psalms, unlike other\u2014so we look at maybe narrative, and we get maybe an emotionless take on what\u2018s happening in redemptive history. The Psalms give us a glimpse into what\u2019s happening in redemptive history from the vantage point of poetry. If anyone\u2019s familiar with poetry, we don\u2019t read poetry like we read the newspaper. We are often intended to feel something; so if you think of songs on the radio as our modern form of poetry, many of us feel something deeply when we hear a song that is moving to us or has a lyric that we really like. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe need to look at the Psalms in the genre that they\u2019re intended to be viewed as, which is poetry. By their very nature, we are intended to <em>feel<\/em> something when we come to the Psalms. Part of the reason of that is because God has left no stone unturned when it comes to giving us His Word. He\u2019s given us narrative; He\u2019s given us prophecy; and He\u2019s given us poetry. Each of those give us a different way of viewing how He\u2019s working in redemptive history. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the ways He\u2019s working in redemptive history is helping us <em>process<\/em> life in a broken world. I think that the Psalms are incredibly helpful for the believer, who maybe feels delivered and is rejoicing in all that God has done for them; but also the believer, who feels stuck and is waiting for God to do something, and they haven\u2019t seen that deliverance come yet. It allows them language to cry out to God, and to pray to God, and to ask God to deliver them; then allows them to know they\u2019re not the first ones or the last ones who will ever sit in this waiting place\/waiting for God to act on their behalf.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It\u2019s hard to wait.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> It\u2019s incredibly hard.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It\u2019s <em>extremely<\/em> hard to wait. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You know, Courtney, in the last couple of months, I have had a few significant life-altering disappointments and, really, almost feeling like explosions in my life. I have felt lost and alone and feeling like God\u2019s not there\/God doesn\u2019t have my good right now, which I know are lies. I know all of those are lies, but those are still the feelings inside of me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I\u2019ve been trying to share with others; and some people will just say: \u201cStop complaining,\u201d or they\u2019ll listen once\u2014I\u2019m just trying to process. There\u2019s been a few people, who have said: \u201cWhat you have\/are facing now is a lot. It is significant, and you need to continue to get this out.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI have turned to Psalm 86. I have been trying to memorize Psalm 86 because\u2014\u201cIncline your ear to me, oh Lord, for I am poor and needy,\u201d\u2014and to continue to say, \u201cGod I\u2019m crying out to you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Right; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>You talk a lot about lamenting. That is becoming\u2014in some churches, that is a new old tradition that some churches have picked up on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney: <\/strong>Right; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> But what is lamenting?\u2014what is true lamenting?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Lament is crying out to God\u2014asking God to do what He promised to do\u2014acknowledging that we\u2019re not experiencing what He\u2019s promised for us. You see that all throughout the Psalms. The Book of the Psalms are lament, which is crazy because the Psalms literally means \u201cpraise\u201d; but the Psalms are mostly filled with lament, which leads many to ask, \u201c<em>Why<\/em>?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe reality is that\/because most of us <em>live<\/em> in the lament. We might have pockets of up\/of upswing; but the older I am, and the more I meet people, the more I realize we\u2019re all limping all the way to glory; and we\u2019re <em>all<\/em> living in this lament. Lament is\u2014one of the hallmarks of Christian lament is not that you complain\u2014as people may think that <em>you<\/em> are doing\u2014I would say it\u2019s not complaining; I would say you\u2019re acknowledging <em>God<\/em> in it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo lament is: \u201cGod incline Your ear to my testimonies,\u201d or Psalm 89 talks about: \u201cAre you going to forget everything that You\u2019ve promised to me?\u201d\u2014that\u2019s where most of us <em>live<\/em>. Psalm 77 is: \u201cWhen I remember God, I moan,\u201d\u2014so even in crying out to God, we moan; we ache; we long; we <em>feel<\/em> the weight of living in a broken world. Lament is this feeling the brokenness of living in a fallen world and crying out to God, begging Him to make all things new.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I was thinking about Chapter One, and you tell the story of two different women that you know. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Can you explain those two different women to us as we\u2019re unpacking what Psalms really looks like?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, so the first woman is the woman who spent her postpartum days with twins, and she did not meditate on God\u2019s Word. She didn\u2019t\u2014she didn\u2019t even go open God\u2019s Word. She spent all of her early morning hours feeding her twins, watching Netflix; and she was exhausted. She didn\u2019t have the energy or capacity to meditate on God\u2019s Word, and it bore bitter fruit in her life over the long haul. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe second woman is a woman, who vowed not to make the same mistake again; so she\u2019s the same woman. She found that, while the circumstances were largely the same\/the trials were largely the same, she meditated on God\u2019s Word and found sustaining hope\/sustaining grace. It didn\u2019t remove the difficulty; and it didn\u2019t remove the emotions and the pain; and it didn't always remove her sinful responses to what God had brought her way; but it did anchor her and give her a leg to stand on when trials came. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat woman is me. I have four children: I have twins; then I had two children\u2014two single children\u2014after that. I can see, in both instances, where not rooting myself in God\u2019s Word did bear a <em>significantly<\/em> bitter fruit in my own life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat is the hope I want to lay out for women in this book\u2014is that God\u2019s Word will not return void in your life. It might not always <em>feel<\/em> like it\u2019s not returning void in your life, but our feelings are not infallible; they can\u2019t always be trusted. We can <em>trust<\/em> that the God, who gave us our emotions and who\u2019s given us His Word, will work His Word into our life; it won\u2019t return void. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> What a wonderful promise from the Word of God that His words will not return void\u2014may not always <em>feel<\/em> that way\u2014but I can promise you that, because God promises that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHey, we need to take a break; but when we come back, Courtney Reissig answers just where she finds time to study God\u2019s Word in her busy schedule of raising toddlers. Two minutes\u2014we\u2019ll be back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Radio Station Spot Break]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. We\u2019re in the middle of a show, where we\u2019re talking about emotions and feelings and, really, how the Psalms in God\u2019s Word should be informing our emotions. This is Part Two of my conversation with Courtney Reissig.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Previous Interview]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Where did you find time to read your Bible?\u2014because the first time, when you had twins, life was chaotic and everything; so at the end of the day, you were just like, \u201cI just want to numb my brain from what is going on.\u201d Where did you <em>find<\/em> time, because your days were just the same? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Right; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You are <em>now<\/em> a mom of four little boys.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Right; I think\u2014so when I look back on the time with the twins, my husband and I both had different responses. When he would do middle-of-the-night feedings, he would listen to the Bible on his phone while he was feeding them. I would watch Netflix. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Change made] But as I would just listen to a sermon; that sustained me. If I just replaced a Netflix episode of whatever show I was watching with a sermon, or a podcast, or an interview, or something that was going to get Scripture into my mind, then I would\/that that would serve me. Sometimes I could read a Psalm or a chapter of the Bible on my phone while I was doing a feeding; but more often than not, it was listening to a sermon or a podcast while I was feeding the baby. Honestly, we have so much at our disposal now in this modern age, where we <em>can<\/em> redeem some of that time and listen to things or take things in. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere\u2019s just so much available to us now that we can take in Scripture, and it won\u2019t look the same way. It\u2019s not going to be sitting down for an hour with a quiet time, where you\u2019re journaling everything you learn; that\u2019s just not possible. But you can find little bits of time, whether you\u2019re drying your hair or things like that. I tried to find little ways where I could do it. I didn\u2019t always do it perfectly; but I noticed that when I did, it made a difference.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You know, you mentioned drying hair. I had a broken hair dryer for <em>years<\/em> that would only give a little bit of poof of the air that came out, but it still <em>dried<\/em>; so I kept it <em>because<\/em> I was able to put Scripture on, and I could listen to it. Now I have a new hairdryer; it\u2019s full-powered, and I can\u2019t hear anything else.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> You could put headphones in!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> That\u2019s a <em>great<\/em> idea!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> That\u2019s what I do, because I can't hear. I\u2019ll put headphones in and listen if I want to listen to something while I\u2019m drying my hair.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> [Laughter] That\u2019s a great idea.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I\u2019ve tried to\u2014I\u2019ve tried to get creative.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>That's a great idea. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe know that one of the purposes of the Psalms is to give us a language for our emotional responses to life's difficulties and success. How did you see that play out in your life?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I began studying the Psalms about a year before everything happened in our family that I talk about in the book. I was leading a Bible study on the wisdom literature and the Psalms. It was there that I got this understanding of: \u201cOh, the Psalms are fulfilling this larger purpose in Scripture that I wasn\u2019t aware of before.\u201d They kind of fit together as this unit; I always viewed them as like\u2014you pull out a Psalm for however you\u2019re feeling that day or whatever is going on in your life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOnce I started seeing them as this cohesive unit: with Psalm 1 and Psalm 2, setting the Psalms up; and then Psalm 146 through 150 closing our the Psalms of what life\u2019s going to be like in the new heavens and the new earth, I was like: \u201cOh wow; they kind of tell the whole story of Scripture in poetic language.\u201d That just really piqued my interest. I just started reading a lot about them, not knowing that God was using that to help prepare me for what was to come. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen I was 33 weeks pregnant with our fourth son, I had a placenta abruption, which is a life-threatening pregnancy complication. It was a partial abruption, so I was put in the hospital for three weeks. Every day was this: \u201cYou could deliver him today,\u201d or \u201cYou could not deliver him today\u201d; or \u201cYou could deliver him dead today,\u201d or \u201cYou could not deliver him today\u201d; and then it became this: \u201cYou could both die today,\u201d or \u201cYou could both not die today.\u201d It was this constant up and down of not knowing what was going to happen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Your feelings are all over the map. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> \u2014all over the map; all over the map\u2014in a constant state of heightened awareness, heightened stress, heightened emotion. We had three other children at the time, so they had to be under constant care; we weren\u2019t able to watch them. My parents had to come get them\/take them home. It was a long\/very long and arduous process and, really, emotionally taxing on my husband and me and our children as a whole. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI remember thinking that hospital bed rest would be like this walk in the park\u2014like you get to watch TV; you can play games; you can really enjoy\u2014like coast through your final weeks of pregnancy and then have a baby. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s like that for some people; but for someone, who\u2019s facing a life-threatening crisis, that could kill them or their baby at any moment, you <em>can\u2019t<\/em> relax. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI couldn\u2019t read books. People so graciously brought me so many magazines and books, and I wanted to read them so desperately and I\u2014I couldn\u2019t read. I couldn\u2019t focus my mind on anything except the Psalms! I would read them; I would read them probably two or three times straight through in the hospital, and I found <em>words<\/em> for how I felt\u2014words for how I was feeling about life and death; because life and death are all over the Psalms. As I faced trauma and trial, I saw the Psalms meet me there. As we faced deliverance, I saw the Psalms meet me there. Then we faced repeated setbacks and trials, as a family, for I mean\u2014even still enduring some of that\u2014the Psalms have repeatedly shown up and met me in the happy places and also in the sad places as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Is there a point in time, where we\u2019re taking lament too far?\u2014or we\u2019re taking that complaining to God too far? Or is He just such a big God that He\u2014His shoulders can take it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s a case-by-case\/person-by-person thing that probably only the person, who\u2019s lamenting, can truly know in their own heart whether they\u2019re taking it too far. I think a lot of people would impose that on a person, but I would say the Psalms are filled with a <em>lot<\/em> of really raw hard questions; and I think God is not surprised by our questions. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe reality is\u2014we\u2019re thinking it already; He knows it; so why not take it to the only one who can make a difference in it?\u2014who can bear the weight of what we\u2019re feeling in the moment. I think we probably, as a culture, err far too much on the side of <em>not<\/em> lamenting, which is why we ask the question, \u201c\u2026if we\u2019re taking it too far?\u201d because we\u2019re so <em>afraid<\/em> of lament.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I think we would do far better to be honest, because lament takes on many forms. It takes on repentance; it takes on brokenness of our sin: brokenness over the sins done against us, brokenness over corporate injustice, brokenness over our own personal suffering. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think we need to be raw and honest for a long time before we start asking the question, \u201c\u2026.if we're\u2026\u201d because I think, as a Christian culture and the American West, we have failed to lament for far too long. I think we can do a lot more lamenting and a lot less questioning whether or not it\u2019s okay. [Laughter] Maybe I'm wrong in that, but I would err on the side of the Psalmists\u2014are really raw.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014which gives me comfort in you saying that, because you've studied the Psalms so much. I was looking at Psalm 20 this morning; it said, \u201cMay the Lord answer you in the day of trouble,\u201d\u2014I was like, \u201cNope, has not yet.\u201d \u201cMay the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high,\u201d\u2014I was like: \u201cSecurity? No; I\u2019m still in the avalanche. I have <em>nothing<\/em> to hold onto.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just kept going through that, and I had such a callous attitude; and then it comes to the end and it says, \u201cMay the King answer us in the day we call.\u201d I had to remember that He is still the King on high and that, one day, He will hear. I know that if I were to go through this Psalm again, in maybe next year\/maybe even in a couple of months, I probably would have a different attitude, going through it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Right; right!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I hope I would.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> You think\u2014like I heard once, one commentator\u2014his name is Mark Futato, who\u2019s a really helpful Psalms scholar\u2014he said, \u201cWe don\u2019t know\u2014we often read the Psalms as a quick resolution to trust. We use that as a prescription in the lives of people,\u201d which is incredible unhelpful. He said, \u201cWe don\u2019t know how long it took certain Psalms to be written. Maybe there's this long period of lament that they wrote in May and then they didn\u2019t get the resolution until November.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Good point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> That\u2019s true. It was incredibly helpful for me to realize, \u201cNo writer writes something in a day, usually.\u201d We don\u2019t know when they were written and over the course of which they were written. But like\u2014for example, Psalm 22 has this quick, in the middle of it: \u201cYou answered me.\u201d Sometimes God\u2019s answering you when you\u2019re stuck and you feel like you can\u2019t take any longer\u2014God answers in the immediate. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut then you\u2019ve got some Psalms\u2014where Psalm 88 ends with darkness. Sometimes that's where we live, and we don\u2019t get an answer. I think that\u2019s what\u2019s helpful to people, who are living in the real world\u2014that sometimes in a few months, you might get an answer; and sometimes you might not. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe reality is\u2014you look at Jesus in the Garden, who prayed the Psalms and fulfilled the Psalms. In the Garden of Gethsemane, He asks the Lord to take the cup from Him; and God did not answer. God did not remove the cup. He went all the way to the cross without that answer, and God forsook Him; but He doesn't do it to us because of Christ\u2014that\u2019s the hope that we have. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe may not always feel incredibly hopeful in the moment, because we can\u2019t grab our hands on it as a tangible deliverance; but it will one day be true that this light and momentary affliction that feels like an endless eternity will give way to glory; and He will deliver us, ultimately. We just don\u2019t know when\u2014if it\u2019s in this life or the one to come.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> A wonderful reminder from Courtney Reissig on how, for those of us who place our trust and our hope in Christ, there is a day that is glorious waiting for us; and it will come, and how the Book of Psalms actually points us to that glorious day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCourtney Reissig has written the book, <em>Teach Me to Feel<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo close out our time today, I felt it best to read from the Psalms\u2014from Psalm 23:\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name\u2019s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for You are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You have anointed my head with oil. My cup overflows. Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHey, coming up next week, we are going to talk about money in marriage. You know, it should be simple; right? And yet, it\u2019s the number-one starter of most fights between a husband and a wife: she wants to spend it one way; he wants to spend it another. Someone wants to save and invest; and the other one wants to, well, you know, it gets tricky. I hope you can join us for that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThanks for listening. I want to thank the president of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, David Robbins, along with our station partners around the country. 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Reissig says the book of Psalms contains a full range of emotions, which can help you process and pray your way to a deeper faith in God.","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/flw\/flw2020-01-04.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> When she was 32 weeks pregnant, author and Bible teacher, Courtney Reissig, found herself facing possible death. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I remember thinking that hospital bed rest would be this like walk in the park; but for someone, who\u2019s facing a life-threatening crisis that could kill them or their baby at any moment, you can\u2019t relax. I couldn\u2019t focus my mind on anything except the Psalms. I found words for how I felt.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Find out how the Psalms give us words to our emotions on this edition of <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife This<\/em> Week. I\u2019m Michelle Hill. You know, King David was a man who, well we would say was in touch with his emotions. But in some ways, he was self-aware. In fact, he wrote a good portion of Psalms; and in that book, we find a <em>myriad<\/em> of emotions: ranging from despair\u2014you know, where he says, \u201cMy God, my God, why have You forsaken me?\u201d\u2014to the pleas\u2014where he\u2019s asking, \u201cDon\u2019t you hear me, God?\u201d\u2014to anguish to repentance. You know, David was <em>honest<\/em> with God about what he was <em>feeling<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs we start this new year, I wanted to spend some time getting ahold of my emotions; and I\u2019m noticing the pattern to David\u2019s cries to God. He cries out; and he shares his pain\/he shares his suffering; but by the end of most of the Psalms, he\u2019s thanking God and he\u2019s praising Him. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCourtney Reissig recently spent a lot of time in the Psalms. She wrote a book, a book that just hits the bookstores <em>this week<\/em>! It\u2019s titled <em>Teach Me to Feel: Worshiping Through the Psalms in Every Season of Life<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCourtney came into our studios, and we talked about how the Psalms inform our feelings. I was asking Courtney, \u201cJust why do we have these emotions?\u201d\u2014because for a long time, while I was growing up, I just sort of stamped down my emotions\u2014you know, \u201cDon\u2019t even show them to anybody else.\u201d I asked Courtney\u2014I said, \u201cWhy emotions and why is this a good thing to share our emotions?\u201d Here\u2019s my conversation with Courtney.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Previous Interview]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I think the primary reason why we have emotions and feelings is because we are created in the image of God. God created us to bear His image\/to tell a story about who He is to a watching world. One of the ways we do that\u2014is that God feels; God feels something about His creation, so He loves His creation. He loves His created beings; He feels sadness when they sin against Him, when they face pain and difficulty. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen we look at Jesus, Jesus felt life deeply, both in His incarnation\/His humanity but also in His deity. He felt what it meant to live in a broken world; He felt what it meant to be God living in a broken world. We feel and we have emotions, because God created us in His image. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, some of us have stronger emotions than others. [Laughter] I am one of those people who has\u2014my husband always jokes that I have very high highs and very low lows; and usually everyone knows\u2014in my sphere of influence\u2014knows when I\u2019m having those highs and those lows. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo those\u2014obviously, living in a broken world, our feelings are broken and our emotions are broken by living in a broken world. But that does not mean that they\u2019re sinful, in and of, themselves. We, as Christians, have to learn how to harness and have our emotions shaped by being created as His image bearers; and ultimately, shaped by the Word of God and by who God has first created us to be as image bearers but, also, who God\u2019s making us more like Christ\/more into His image through salvation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> How do we go about shaping that? I\u2019m thinking of almost like a clay pot, where God is trying to shape us and mold us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> But how do we go about doing that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I think one of the ways that that happens is through the process of sanctification; so through the work of the Holy Spirit in our life, God is renewing us and making us more like his Son, Jesus. That is going to shape our emotions, and grow our emotions, and deepen our emotions, and make them more God-like emotions. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen you think of anger, anger is not sinful, in and of itself. We often sin in our anger; we are not God-like in our anger. God is angry. We should be angry about the things that God is angry about: like injustice, and sin, and the effects of living in a fallen world. Very often, our anger manifests itself in ways that are for our own glory and not God\u2019s glory. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe way we\u2019re re-made into the image of Christ\u2014through Christ\u2019s work on the cross and through the sanctifying work through the Holy Spirit, and the way that that happens is through the Word incarnate\u2014we <em>know<\/em> what God is like. Through knowing God through His Word, and through knowing who Jesus is and how He displayed His emotions, we can be re-made into the image of Christ.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s where I think the Psalms are helpful because, in the Psalms, we see a full range of emotions. We see that process of sanctification in the Book of the Psalms. We see people responding to the reality of life in a broken world. I think that the way we grow in our emotions is staying as close to God as possible. The way we stay close to God is through His Word; the Psalms help us in that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Now, you have written a book on the Psalms\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I have.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014<em>Teach Me to Feel.<\/em> Congratulations; it\u2019s just out this week. In fact, you\u2019ve been able to pick up the hard copy that <em>I<\/em> was given.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> So that\u2019s exciting to see <em>your excitement<\/em> over a book that has taken so long, I\u2019m sure\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014months and months of just pouring over the Psalms, and really taking the time to study and to figure out what David and these other players are saying. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou say that the Psalms are a mirror into our soul. Talk to us about that: \u201cHow are the Psalms a mirror for us?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I think the Psalms, unlike other\u2014so we look at maybe narrative, and we get maybe an emotionless take on what\u2018s happening in redemptive history. The Psalms give us a glimpse into what\u2019s happening in redemptive history from the vantage point of poetry. If anyone\u2019s familiar with poetry, we don\u2019t read poetry like we read the newspaper. We are often intended to feel something; so if you think of songs on the radio as our modern form of poetry, many of us feel something deeply when we hear a song that is moving to us or has a lyric that we really like. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe need to look at the Psalms in the genre that they\u2019re intended to be viewed as, which is poetry. By their very nature, we are intended to <em>feel<\/em> something when we come to the Psalms. Part of the reason of that is because God has left no stone unturned when it comes to giving us His Word. He\u2019s given us narrative; He\u2019s given us prophecy; and He\u2019s given us poetry. Each of those give us a different way of viewing how He\u2019s working in redemptive history. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the ways He\u2019s working in redemptive history is helping us <em>process<\/em> life in a broken world. I think that the Psalms are incredibly helpful for the believer, who maybe feels delivered and is rejoicing in all that God has done for them; but also the believer, who feels stuck and is waiting for God to do something, and they haven\u2019t seen that deliverance come yet. It allows them language to cry out to God, and to pray to God, and to ask God to deliver them; then allows them to know they\u2019re not the first ones or the last ones who will ever sit in this waiting place\/waiting for God to act on their behalf.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It\u2019s hard to wait.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> It\u2019s incredibly hard.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> It\u2019s <em>extremely<\/em> hard to wait. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You know, Courtney, in the last couple of months, I have had a few significant life-altering disappointments and, really, almost feeling like explosions in my life. I have felt lost and alone and feeling like God\u2019s not there\/God doesn\u2019t have my good right now, which I know are lies. I know all of those are lies, but those are still the feelings inside of me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I\u2019ve been trying to share with others; and some people will just say: \u201cStop complaining,\u201d or they\u2019ll listen once\u2014I\u2019m just trying to process. There\u2019s been a few people, who have said: \u201cWhat you have\/are facing now is a lot. It is significant, and you need to continue to get this out.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI have turned to Psalm 86. I have been trying to memorize Psalm 86 because\u2014\u201cIncline your ear to me, oh Lord, for I am poor and needy,\u201d\u2014and to continue to say, \u201cGod I\u2019m crying out to you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Right; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>You talk a lot about lamenting. That is becoming\u2014in some churches, that is a new old tradition that some churches have picked up on.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney: <\/strong>Right; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> But what is lamenting?\u2014what is true lamenting?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Lament is crying out to God\u2014asking God to do what He promised to do\u2014acknowledging that we\u2019re not experiencing what He\u2019s promised for us. You see that all throughout the Psalms. The Book of the Psalms are lament, which is crazy because the Psalms literally means \u201cpraise\u201d; but the Psalms are mostly filled with lament, which leads many to ask, \u201c<em>Why<\/em>?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe reality is that\/because most of us <em>live<\/em> in the lament. We might have pockets of up\/of upswing; but the older I am, and the more I meet people, the more I realize we\u2019re all limping all the way to glory; and we\u2019re <em>all<\/em> living in this lament. Lament is\u2014one of the hallmarks of Christian lament is not that you complain\u2014as people may think that <em>you<\/em> are doing\u2014I would say it\u2019s not complaining; I would say you\u2019re acknowledging <em>God<\/em> in it. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo lament is: \u201cGod incline Your ear to my testimonies,\u201d or Psalm 89 talks about: \u201cAre you going to forget everything that You\u2019ve promised to me?\u201d\u2014that\u2019s where most of us <em>live<\/em>. Psalm 77 is: \u201cWhen I remember God, I moan,\u201d\u2014so even in crying out to God, we moan; we ache; we long; we <em>feel<\/em> the weight of living in a broken world. Lament is this feeling the brokenness of living in a fallen world and crying out to God, begging Him to make all things new.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I was thinking about Chapter One, and you tell the story of two different women that you know. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes; yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Can you explain those two different women to us as we\u2019re unpacking what Psalms really looks like?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Yes, so the first woman is the woman who spent her postpartum days with twins, and she did not meditate on God\u2019s Word. She didn\u2019t\u2014she didn\u2019t even go open God\u2019s Word. She spent all of her early morning hours feeding her twins, watching Netflix; and she was exhausted. She didn\u2019t have the energy or capacity to meditate on God\u2019s Word, and it bore bitter fruit in her life over the long haul. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe second woman is a woman, who vowed not to make the same mistake again; so she\u2019s the same woman. She found that, while the circumstances were largely the same\/the trials were largely the same, she meditated on God\u2019s Word and found sustaining hope\/sustaining grace. It didn\u2019t remove the difficulty; and it didn\u2019t remove the emotions and the pain; and it didn't always remove her sinful responses to what God had brought her way; but it did anchor her and give her a leg to stand on when trials came. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat woman is me. I have four children: I have twins; then I had two children\u2014two single children\u2014after that. I can see, in both instances, where not rooting myself in God\u2019s Word did bear a <em>significantly<\/em> bitter fruit in my own life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat is the hope I want to lay out for women in this book\u2014is that God\u2019s Word will not return void in your life. It might not always <em>feel<\/em> like it\u2019s not returning void in your life, but our feelings are not infallible; they can\u2019t always be trusted. We can <em>trust<\/em> that the God, who gave us our emotions and who\u2019s given us His Word, will work His Word into our life; it won\u2019t return void. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> What a wonderful promise from the Word of God that His words will not return void\u2014may not always <em>feel<\/em> that way\u2014but I can promise you that, because God promises that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHey, we need to take a break; but when we come back, Courtney Reissig answers just where she finds time to study God\u2019s Word in her busy schedule of raising toddlers. Two minutes\u2014we\u2019ll be back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Radio Station Spot Break]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Welcome back to <em>FamilyLife This Week<\/em>. I'm Michelle Hill. We\u2019re in the middle of a show, where we\u2019re talking about emotions and feelings and, really, how the Psalms in God\u2019s Word should be informing our emotions. This is Part Two of my conversation with Courtney Reissig.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Previous Interview]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>Where did you find time to read your Bible?\u2014because the first time, when you had twins, life was chaotic and everything; so at the end of the day, you were just like, \u201cI just want to numb my brain from what is going on.\u201d Where did you <em>find<\/em> time, because your days were just the same? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Right; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You are <em>now<\/em> a mom of four little boys.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Right; I think\u2014so when I look back on the time with the twins, my husband and I both had different responses. When he would do middle-of-the-night feedings, he would listen to the Bible on his phone while he was feeding them. I would watch Netflix. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Change made] But as I would just listen to a sermon; that sustained me. If I just replaced a Netflix episode of whatever show I was watching with a sermon, or a podcast, or an interview, or something that was going to get Scripture into my mind, then I would\/that that would serve me. Sometimes I could read a Psalm or a chapter of the Bible on my phone while I was doing a feeding; but more often than not, it was listening to a sermon or a podcast while I was feeding the baby. Honestly, we have so much at our disposal now in this modern age, where we <em>can<\/em> redeem some of that time and listen to things or take things in. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere\u2019s just so much available to us now that we can take in Scripture, and it won\u2019t look the same way. It\u2019s not going to be sitting down for an hour with a quiet time, where you\u2019re journaling everything you learn; that\u2019s just not possible. But you can find little bits of time, whether you\u2019re drying your hair or things like that. I tried to find little ways where I could do it. I didn\u2019t always do it perfectly; but I noticed that when I did, it made a difference.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> You know, you mentioned drying hair. I had a broken hair dryer for <em>years<\/em> that would only give a little bit of poof of the air that came out, but it still <em>dried<\/em>; so I kept it <em>because<\/em> I was able to put Scripture on, and I could listen to it. Now I have a new hairdryer; it\u2019s full-powered, and I can\u2019t hear anything else.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> You could put headphones in!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> That\u2019s a <em>great<\/em> idea!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> That\u2019s what I do, because I can't hear. I\u2019ll put headphones in and listen if I want to listen to something while I\u2019m drying my hair.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> [Laughter] That\u2019s a great idea.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I\u2019ve tried to\u2014I\u2019ve tried to get creative.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle: <\/strong>That's a great idea. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe know that one of the purposes of the Psalms is to give us a language for our emotional responses to life's difficulties and success. How did you see that play out in your life?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I began studying the Psalms about a year before everything happened in our family that I talk about in the book. I was leading a Bible study on the wisdom literature and the Psalms. It was there that I got this understanding of: \u201cOh, the Psalms are fulfilling this larger purpose in Scripture that I wasn\u2019t aware of before.\u201d They kind of fit together as this unit; I always viewed them as like\u2014you pull out a Psalm for however you\u2019re feeling that day or whatever is going on in your life. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOnce I started seeing them as this cohesive unit: with Psalm 1 and Psalm 2, setting the Psalms up; and then Psalm 146 through 150 closing our the Psalms of what life\u2019s going to be like in the new heavens and the new earth, I was like: \u201cOh wow; they kind of tell the whole story of Scripture in poetic language.\u201d That just really piqued my interest. I just started reading a lot about them, not knowing that God was using that to help prepare me for what was to come. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen I was 33 weeks pregnant with our fourth son, I had a placenta abruption, which is a life-threatening pregnancy complication. It was a partial abruption, so I was put in the hospital for three weeks. Every day was this: \u201cYou could deliver him today,\u201d or \u201cYou could not deliver him today\u201d; or \u201cYou could deliver him dead today,\u201d or \u201cYou could not deliver him today\u201d; and then it became this: \u201cYou could both die today,\u201d or \u201cYou could both not die today.\u201d It was this constant up and down of not knowing what was going to happen.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Your feelings are all over the map. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> \u2014all over the map; all over the map\u2014in a constant state of heightened awareness, heightened stress, heightened emotion. We had three other children at the time, so they had to be under constant care; we weren\u2019t able to watch them. My parents had to come get them\/take them home. It was a long\/very long and arduous process and, really, emotionally taxing on my husband and me and our children as a whole. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI remember thinking that hospital bed rest would be like this walk in the park\u2014like you get to watch TV; you can play games; you can really enjoy\u2014like coast through your final weeks of pregnancy and then have a baby. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s like that for some people; but for someone, who\u2019s facing a life-threatening crisis, that could kill them or their baby at any moment, you <em>can\u2019t<\/em> relax. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI couldn\u2019t read books. People so graciously brought me so many magazines and books, and I wanted to read them so desperately and I\u2014I couldn\u2019t read. I couldn\u2019t focus my mind on anything except the Psalms! I would read them; I would read them probably two or three times straight through in the hospital, and I found <em>words<\/em> for how I felt\u2014words for how I was feeling about life and death; because life and death are all over the Psalms. As I faced trauma and trial, I saw the Psalms meet me there. As we faced deliverance, I saw the Psalms meet me there. Then we faced repeated setbacks and trials, as a family, for I mean\u2014even still enduring some of that\u2014the Psalms have repeatedly shown up and met me in the happy places and also in the sad places as well.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Is there a point in time, where we\u2019re taking lament too far?\u2014or we\u2019re taking that complaining to God too far? Or is He just such a big God that He\u2014His shoulders can take it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s a case-by-case\/person-by-person thing that probably only the person, who\u2019s lamenting, can truly know in their own heart whether they\u2019re taking it too far. I think a lot of people would impose that on a person, but I would say the Psalms are filled with a <em>lot<\/em> of really raw hard questions; and I think God is not surprised by our questions. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe reality is\u2014we\u2019re thinking it already; He knows it; so why not take it to the only one who can make a difference in it?\u2014who can bear the weight of what we\u2019re feeling in the moment. I think we probably, as a culture, err far too much on the side of <em>not<\/em> lamenting, which is why we ask the question, \u201c\u2026if we\u2019re taking it too far?\u201d because we\u2019re so <em>afraid<\/em> of lament.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> I think we would do far better to be honest, because lament takes on many forms. It takes on repentance; it takes on brokenness of our sin: brokenness over the sins done against us, brokenness over corporate injustice, brokenness over our own personal suffering. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think we need to be raw and honest for a long time before we start asking the question, \u201c\u2026.if we're\u2026\u201d because I think, as a Christian culture and the American West, we have failed to lament for far too long. I think we can do a lot more lamenting and a lot less questioning whether or not it\u2019s okay. [Laughter] Maybe I'm wrong in that, but I would err on the side of the Psalmists\u2014are really raw.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> \u2014which gives me comfort in you saying that, because you've studied the Psalms so much. I was looking at Psalm 20 this morning; it said, \u201cMay the Lord answer you in the day of trouble,\u201d\u2014I was like, \u201cNope, has not yet.\u201d \u201cMay the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high,\u201d\u2014I was like: \u201cSecurity? No; I\u2019m still in the avalanche. I have <em>nothing<\/em> to hold onto.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just kept going through that, and I had such a callous attitude; and then it comes to the end and it says, \u201cMay the King answer us in the day we call.\u201d I had to remember that He is still the King on high and that, one day, He will hear. I know that if I were to go through this Psalm again, in maybe next year\/maybe even in a couple of months, I probably would have a different attitude, going through it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> Right; right!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> I hope I would.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> You think\u2014like I heard once, one commentator\u2014his name is Mark Futato, who\u2019s a really helpful Psalms scholar\u2014he said, \u201cWe don\u2019t know\u2014we often read the Psalms as a quick resolution to trust. We use that as a prescription in the lives of people,\u201d which is incredible unhelpful. He said, \u201cWe don\u2019t know how long it took certain Psalms to be written. Maybe there's this long period of lament that they wrote in May and then they didn\u2019t get the resolution until November.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> Good point.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Courtney:<\/strong> That\u2019s true. It was incredibly helpful for me to realize, \u201cNo writer writes something in a day, usually.\u201d We don\u2019t know when they were written and over the course of which they were written. But like\u2014for example, Psalm 22 has this quick, in the middle of it: \u201cYou answered me.\u201d Sometimes God\u2019s answering you when you\u2019re stuck and you feel like you can\u2019t take any longer\u2014God answers in the immediate. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut then you\u2019ve got some Psalms\u2014where Psalm 88 ends with darkness. Sometimes that's where we live, and we don\u2019t get an answer. I think that\u2019s what\u2019s helpful to people, who are living in the real world\u2014that sometimes in a few months, you might get an answer; and sometimes you might not. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe reality is\u2014you look at Jesus in the Garden, who prayed the Psalms and fulfilled the Psalms. In the Garden of Gethsemane, He asks the Lord to take the cup from Him; and God did not answer. God did not remove the cup. He went all the way to the cross without that answer, and God forsook Him; but He doesn't do it to us because of Christ\u2014that\u2019s the hope that we have. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe may not always feel incredibly hopeful in the moment, because we can\u2019t grab our hands on it as a tangible deliverance; but it will one day be true that this light and momentary affliction that feels like an endless eternity will give way to glory; and He will deliver us, ultimately. We just don\u2019t know when\u2014if it\u2019s in this life or the one to come.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t[Studio]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Michelle:<\/strong> A wonderful reminder from Courtney Reissig on how, for those of us who place our trust and our hope in Christ, there is a day that is glorious waiting for us; and it will come, and how the Book of Psalms actually points us to that glorious day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCourtney Reissig has written the book, <em>Teach Me to Feel<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo close out our time today, I felt it best to read from the Psalms\u2014from Psalm 23:\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name\u2019s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for You are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You have anointed my head with oil. My cup overflows. Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHey, coming up next week, we are going to talk about money in marriage. You know, it should be simple; right? And yet, it\u2019s the number-one starter of most fights between a husband and a wife: she wants to spend it one way; he wants to spend it another. Someone wants to save and invest; and the other one wants to, well, you know, it gets tricky. I hope you can join us for that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThanks for listening. I want to thank the president of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, David Robbins, along with our station partners around the country. 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