we praise we are functioning at the center, we are in touch with the basic, core reality of our being. But very often we don’t feel like it, and so we say, “It would be dishonest for me to go to a place of worship and praise God when I don’t feel like it. I would be a hypocrite.” The psalm says, I don’t care whether you feel like it or not: as was decreed (RSV), “give thanks to the name of GOD.” I have put great emphasis on the fact that Christians worship because they want to, not because they are