The structure of the book bridges head and heart: it o^ ers both exegetical depth and personal involvement for a month of devotional refl ection. Each meditation observes the text carefully, considers some of the nuances and implications of the original Hebrew, and identifi es how our lives fi t into the bigˇer story of the biblical narrative. Thus, the book both supplies skills for biblical meditation and invites readers to contemplate God's relation to all the cries of human existence, to realize how a relationship with the Trinity gives us the unusual ability to handle all the dimensions of life.