meditatively, not worried about maintaining a certain pace. The first step in our approach is to simply pray a Psalm by reading it aloud to God, word-for-word as it appears in the Bible, and searching for emotional words and phrases during this first go-through. It is paramount that, as we pray, we read the Psalm aloud and with emotion. If you are tempted to skip this oral step (because our common method of personal reading is to read silently), please don’t give in. Too often the Bible is read in our minds