they also do more than all that by doing all of it before God. Psalmic disclosure, that is, does not simply have an aura of the sacred about it, nor is it a kind of prayer; it is done in the very presence of the Sacred Itself, through the very patterns of prayer proper. The Psalms realize, manifest, and disclose not only the place where no secrets are hid but the God from whom they cannot be hidden. And so, despite the many helpful similarities among PostSecret, psychology, and the Psalms, and the
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