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Fr. Lorne Weaver has crafted for the faithful believer an engaging read of the biblical Psalter. This is not just another scholarly book about the Psalms. It is a pastor’s journey into the hymns and songs of the faithful in antiquity. And on that journey Weaver stops time and again to smell the “roses of Sharon” as he moves through psalm after psalm that move the reader to find expression after expression of trust in God even in the worst of circumstances.

Weaver finds in the Psalms amazing affirmations of trust in God in the midst of personal disasters that today drive many people away from the Church. While Weaver bases his readings on scholarship of the Book of Psalms he nonetheless pierces through the many conjectures about their forms, origins and provenances and finds what the lay person today faces who often lives on the boundaries of modern existence, the soul who quietly endures the worst that life can throw at a person. This book speaks to those who often quietly suffer pain and doubt to the point of despair. This is the book that speaks to those who ask the desperate question, “Why did God let this happen?”

Weaver has crafted out of his many years of ministry a reading of the Psalms that speaks directly to the individual believer who stumbles and staggers, even gropes for something stable on which to find his or her footing in a world that has lost the support of family and often finds her/himself alone and needing care, or is the care-giver for a loved one who literally absorbs all they have to give of themselves.

Weaver shows how biblical texts like those of the Psalms still speak loud and clear to those who read them needing sure help to get through life intact. Sure, they spoke to enough in antiquity to get on a tenure tract toward lodging in Jewish and Christian canons, but that is not Weaver’s concern. Weaver’s concern is for the soul out there who deeply needs spiritual succor. His confidence is that with the help this book can afford, even the sorely afflicted, the reader will find the true trust that fills the heart with the peace and solace that only God herself can provide.

James A. Sanders

Claremont, CA