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"Over? Did you say 'over'? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!... And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...[thinks hard]... the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!"

-- Bluto, "Animal House" (1978, by Harold Ramis & Douglas Kenney & Chris Miller)

Everyone needs a pep talk now and then.
Everybody needs to be inspired.

In addition to being a source of empathy, the Psalms are the epitome of inspirational words.
Daily Affirmations, which is why people are encouraged to read it during any life cycle event.
Happy, sad—doesn’t matter, you can find meaning in a psalm.
Heck, there are 150, there’s bound to be ONE that you can identify with.
Like a flavor of Ben & Jerry’s or type of CareBear – pick one!

People need hope! People need something to cling to, to root for, a reason to keep soldiering on!

They need the Psalms.

“For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.”
-- Ps. 54:3-4

“I’m the underdog, the odds are against me. But I got a secret weapon—God! God will give me the extra strength I need to be victorious.

God—The Gatorade of deities.
Theological Steroids.

The Psalms are uplifting half-time pep talks.

The writer of the Psalms knows that Life isn't always fair, and the reader of the Bible needs some empathy and inspiration, as we all do.

One line from the opening scene from “Patton”—

“We're gonna keep fighting. Is that CLEAR? We're gonna attack all night, we're gonna attack tomorrow morning. If we are not VICTORIOUS, let no man come back alive!”
-- “Patton” (1970, screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North)

"And the last thing he said to me: 'Rock,' he said, 'Sometime, when the team is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.'"
-- "Knute Rockne: All American"
(1940, screenplay by Robert Buckner)
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