Using the Psalms in pastoral care

This is an assignment I did on the use of the Psalms in pastoral care. It starts with a great poem by Yehuda Amichai, Summer Evening by the Window with the Psalms, which begins:

Close scrutiny of the past.
How my soul yearns within me like those souls
in the nineteenth century before the great wars,
like curtains that want to pull free
of the open window and fly.

I used an online tool to generate a "word cloud" of the top 70 words in the New English Translation, and it looks like this:

Here's the whole assignment.