TEACH ME TO FEEL:
Worshiping Through the Psalms in Every
Season of Life
By Courtney Reissig
The Good Book Company. 256 pages. £11.99
ISBN 978 1 784 984 441
I thought I wouldn’t like this book. Perhaps it was the title. Being of the ‘get-a-grip’ generation, I have a slight aversion to the touchy-feely, preferring to crack on and not make a fuss.
But this book is not as me-centred as it sounds. It is a series of short studies on the Psalms and it is thoroughly Christ-centred. Starting with Psalm 1 and Psalm 2, Courtney Reissig gives us some solid ground before we get to dealing with emotions. We are reminded of the crucial importance of rooting ourselves in God’s word as opposed to the counsel of the wicked. And we are taken to the bigger picture: ‘I have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill.’ As Reissig says, ‘In many ways, the message of the entire Bible is captured in this one sentence.’ We get the end story first and this is the perspective for the meditations that follow.
