"The Psalms, and those who pray them, are an unlikely parade of people who connect to our unpredictable God in familiar and unexpected ways." writes author Kevin Adams in his book 150: Finding Your Story in the Psalms. They give us room -- room to doubt and believe, to shout and pray as we never thought permissible ... and to belong. 

And they connect us to God.  As Thomas Merton said, “Nowhere can we be more certain that we are praying with the Holy Spirit than when we pray the Psalms.”