It would take very little personal conversation among us this morning to discover the healing, encouraging, strengthening, supporting, comforting power the Psalms have been in our individual lives. A variety and a large number of Psalms would be pointed to as the ones that have ministered to you in a particular time of need.

At our Administrative Board meeting two weeks ago, Karla Grant shared her Christian pilgrimage verses from the Psalms. This is her story. Six weeks after she and Don welcomed their first of their three girls into the world in February, 1977, they received the unhappy and frightening news that Karla had melanoma. During that difficult time, Karla’s mother gave her a special verse to cling to, Psalm 34, verse 4: “For I cried unto the Lord, and he answered me. He deliver…