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The Psalms are my prayer book and trained me in the vocabulary and the rhythm of attentive responsiveness to God.
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The speaker describes the Psalms as both a guide for prayer and a teacher of expression. They provided words for addressing God and helped shape a steady, careful way of listening and responding. “Vocabulary” points to learning how to speak in prayer, while “rhythm” suggests that this attentive response became a practiced pattern.
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