Psalms in miniature? Journey with the Psalms in Lent

Our reading today covers Psalms 21 through 24. Within that reading is Psalm 22 and 23 perhaps the most familiar psalms to all of us. Psalm 22 we hear in worship during Holy Week and especially from Jesus on the cross, "My God, My God why have you forsaken me?" As you read the psalm today hear those familiar words of Passion and hear also this song from the voices of a congregation. It moves an individual plea to the voice of the congregation to the voices of the generations of Israel to all humanity and final to the whole earth singing to God. Psalm 23 we hear during almost every resurrection worship- funerals. We hear also the sounds of our childhoods. How many of us heard or memorized this psalm in Sunday School? How many of us heard this psalm as the first voice of scripture that we understood. If John 3:16 is considered the Gospel in miniature, "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son…" might Psalms 22 and 23 together be considered The Book of Psalms in miniature?