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Odd material, coming from the Los Angeles Times…

“Often people feel that before you approach God, you got to put your best suit on,” said [Rev. John Goldingay, a professor of the Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena], an Episcopal priest. “The Psalms show when you come to God, you don’t have to put your best suit on.”…

The 22nd Psalm is among Goldingay’s favorites, and teaching the Psalms has enriched his own relationship with God. His wife, Ann, a psychiatrist who has lived with multiple sclerosis for more than four decades, cannot speak or make any voluntary movements.

Yet Goldingay says that as he pushes his wife’s wheelchair to take her to events, he feels gratitude to God for the gift of her life and her love. To many of his friends and students, their example is a powerful ministry.

For several years she was in hospice care, but in November, Goldingay was told his wife could go home “because she is not deteriorating.”
–K. Connie Kang, “Psalms offer source of inspiration for prayer”, Los Angeles Times, March 29, 2008