When I'm at my worst, distant from God, struggling to pray, avoiding scripture, tired of God's people, I often go to the Psalms. Maybe it's because they're short. I hope not. There's something about the Psalms that drag me back to the reality of God in my life. Hearing the passionate cries of David for deliverance. His exclamations of the attributes of God. His longings for the redemption of God in his life. All these things resonate with me.