He spoke of the loneliness and abuse that his ministry had evoked, his desire for God honed by a sustained experience of loss. He found in the Psalter “all the griefs, sorrows, fears, doubts, hopes, cares, perplexities, in short, all the distracting emotions with which the minds of men are wont to be agitated.”47 As if mirroring the turmoil of the Psalms, his own inner and outer worlds remained equally fragile.
