writes in his marvelous book Answering God that just as we learn to speak by being spoken to, so we learn to pray by praying back to God the words He has spoken to us. Peterson isn’t talking about some crazy “word from God” you “received” about winning the lottery; he means praying the Psalms. Drawing on the parallel between the structure of the Torah—God’s Word to Israel—in five books, and the Psalter as Israel’s response to God, also ordered in five books, Peterson invites us to see the Psalms as instructions