Praying the Blues - Overview

This week we are focusing on Laments - praying the blues. When we pray, our prayer language is frequently polite and reverent, and that is good. There are times, however, when the pain and injustice in our lives and in the situations around us call for stronger words and emotions – ones that seem to jump out of our anguish. Are such heated prayers ok, or do we need to calm down before we open up to God? The Psalms give us strong words for difficult times. May we find, as the Psalmists did, that God reveals himself most fully when we are willing to pray most fully.