Help Me Be: Praying in Poems by Dale Fredrickson is a thoughtful collection of modern psalms. Fredrickson takes inspiration from Walter Brueggemann’s Praying the Psalms, dividing this collection into three parts: Orientation (Or, Life is Good), Disorientation (Or, Life is Not Good) and New Orientation (or Life is Good Again). The poems function as prayers and laments to God, praising and glorifying him, crying out to him in despair and contemplating the mysteries and beauty of our relationship with him … exactly what the Biblical Psalms do. (more…)