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When We Can No Longer Pretend Everything Is Fine

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When We Can No Longer Pretend Everything Is Fine

Sometimes we get tired

of carrying the same problems

day after day.

We try to manage them.

Push through them.

Ignore them.

But eventually

we reach a point

where we can no longer pretend

everything is fine.

And neither does the psalmist.

The psalmist does not pretend

the problems do not exist.

The psalmist does not minimize them.

And the psalmist does not accept

that despair must have the final word.

Instead, the problems are named plainly.

Help is sought honestly.

And trust is held onto tenaciously.

“Give me relief from my…

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