I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fum...
All my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.Psalm 139:16
The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith.
If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms.
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer.