Day 3 Tuesday Prayer of Lament
Read Psalm 56:1-13
How is it possible to write without pain?
How can anything be written worth reading,
that doesn’t pulse from a pen dipped in
the blood of a mortal wound?
The same could be said about prayer.
Lord, is it possible to pray, to really pray
without some level of lament?
Desperate, lonely, confused, overwhelmed,
betrayed, broken, trampled upon, attacked and
abandoned—
This is the heart that turns its gaze to You.
The anguished heart is the soil that grows
a soul that turns its gaze to You.
So Lord, afflict my soul for my good.
Cauterize my wound with the hot poker of Your Spirit,
so I might pray like David.
“So that I might walk before You,
in the light of the living.” [1]
Teach my soul to praise the God I trust.
- Spend some time meditating on Psalm 56 paying special attention to the language of the heart in the psalm.
[1] Cf. verses 4, 10 and 11.
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