How might a modern person answer the Psalmist? “Are you kidding? I fear terrorists; I fear crazy, disgruntled people with automatic weapons; I fear natural disasters; I fear losing my job, my home, my family; I fear cancer; I fear Alzheimer’s….” And yet people in antiquity must have feared plenty-including things that we (for the most part) no longer need to fear--like darkness and wild beasts. When you think about it, what is amazing is that anyone could have written the kinds of things that we find in the Psalms at all. What, for example, was the Psalmist thinking when writing: