Daily Devo: Permission to Lament
Daily Devo
DAY 1 — TURNING TO GOD IN THE DARK
Theme: The first movement of lament is simply to turn toward God and cry out.
OPENING PRAYER
Lord, God of my salvation, I come to You today not with polished words but with an honest heart. Some days I arrive full of faith; other days I arrive barely holding on. Teach me, through the prayer of Heman, that the first act of faith in a dark season is simply to turn toward You and speak. Incline Your ear to me today. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING — Psalm 88, superscription and verses 1-2 (ESV)
A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
1 O Lord, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you.
2 Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry!
DAILY TOPIC
Before Heman describes a single sorrow, he does two things: he turns toward God, and he names who God is. "O Lord, God of my salvation." Notice he does not say "God who will fix this" or "God who will explain this." He calls God his salvation — even before anything has changed. Then he tells the truth about his prayer life: it is constant, "day and night." The opening of lament is not a dramatic solution; it is a stubborn direction. Heman's face is turned God-ward, even when everything else is dark.
The superscription tells us this psalm was written by Heman the Ezrahite and was set to music to be sung in worship. That means God's people did not hide this prayer in a drawer — they sang it. A prayer born in pain became part of the congregation's songbook. Your honest cries belong in worship too.
LIFE APPLICATION AND FOLLOW-UP EXERCISE
Today, practice the first movement of lament: turning. Before you ask God for anything, simply address Him and name who He is to you.
Exercise: Write one sentence that begins, "O Lord, God of my ____." Fill in the blank honestly — salvation, mercy, patience, comfort, or even "whom I do not yet understand." Then write the words: "I cry out to You today." Carry that sentence with you. Say it aloud at least three times today — once in the morning, once midday, once before bed.
CLOSING PRAYER
O Lord, God of my salvation, I cry out to You this day. Let my prayer come before You. Incline Your ear to my cry. Even when I have no answers, keep my face turned toward You. Amen.
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DAY 2 — NAMING THE TROUBLE
Theme: Lament gives us permission to tell God the honest truth about our condition.
OPENING PRAYER
Lord, You already know the trouble in my soul, yet You invite me to speak it aloud. Save me from the false piety that pretends everything is fine. Today I bring You the real condition of my heart. Hear me as I name it. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING — Psalm 88, verses 3-5 (ESV)
3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,
5 like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.
DAILY TOPIC
Heman does not minimize. He does not say, "I'm having a hard week." He says his soul is "full of troubles," his life is "drawing near to Sheol," he has "no strength," and he feels "cut off" from God's hand. That is the language of someone at the bottom. Lament refuses the temptation to spiritualize pain away or to make it more palatable than it really is. God can handle the honest diagnosis.
Notice the progression: trouble fills the soul, then closes in on the body, then threatens relationship with God Himself ("cut off from your hand"). Suffering rarely stays in one place. It leaks from the soul into the body, into relationships, into our sense of God's nearness. Naming the trouble — accurately and without dressing it up — is the second movement of lament. You cannot bring to God what you will not first admit.
LIFE APPLICATION AND FOLLOW-UP EXERCISE
God is not asking you to dramatize your pain, but He is inviting you to stop hiding it — from Him and from yourself.
Exercise: On a piece of paper, complete this sentence honestly: "The trouble in my soul right now is ___." Then write a second sentence describing how that trouble has affected your strength, your body, or your sense of God's nearness. Read both sentences aloud as a prayer: "Lord, this is the real condition of my soul. I am not hiding it from You." Resist the urge to soften it.
CLOSING PRAYER
Father, my soul is full of troubles, and I bring it to You unedited. You are not shocked by my weakness, and You do not turn away from my honesty. Receive the truth of my heart today, and stay near me in the pit. Amen.
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DAY 3 — WHEN GOD SEEMS THE SOURCE
Theme: The hardest part of lament is acknowledging that God Himself may be the One whose hand we feel in our suffering.
OPENING PRAYER
Lord, this is the hardest part. It is one thing to suffer at the hands of people or circumstance; it is another to feel that Your hand is in it. Help me to be honest with You the way Heman was honest — and help me to keep trusting You even when I do not understand. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING — Psalm 88, verses 6-9 (ESV)
6 You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.
7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah
8 You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
9 my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O Lord; I spread out my hands to you.
DAILY TOPIC
This is one of the most unsettling passages in the Psalms. Heman does not blame the devil, the economy, his enemies, or his own mistakes. He says, "You have put me in the depths of the pit." "Your wrath lies heavy upon me." "You overwhelm me with all your waves." He attributes his suffering directly to God. And yet he keeps praying: "Every day I call upon you, O Lord; I spread out my hands to you."
How can someone accuse God and cling to God at the same time? Because the God of the Bible is big enough to be both the One who allows the suffering and the only One who can deliver from it. Heman has nowhere else to go. Even his relationships have collapsed — companions shun him, he is "shut in so that I cannot escape." When every other door closes, the prayer that remains is the prayer that matters.
We see this same pattern at the cross. Jesus is delivered up "according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God" (Acts 2:23), and on the cross He cries out the opening words of another lament psalm: "My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46). The dark hand of God and the love of God meet at Calvary. If you feel God's hand heavy upon you, you are walking a road Christ Himself walked.
LIFE APPLICATION AND FOLLOW-UP EXERCISE
It is possible to be angry with God and faithful to God at the same time. The key is to bring the anger to Him rather than away from Him.
Exercise: Read verses 6-9 again slowly. Underline or circle every "You" — every place Haman addresses God directly as the actor in his suffering. Then ask yourself: Have I ever felt that God Himself was the source of my pain? Have I told Him that, or have I only told other people? Today, take five minutes to tell God directly. Use Heman's own words if your own will not come: "Lord, it feels like You have put me here." End by echoing verse 9: "Even so, I call upon You; I spread out my hands to You."
CLOSING PRAYER
Lord, Your ways are higher than mine, and sometimes Your hand feels heavier than I can bear. I do not understand, but I will not turn away from You — for where else can I go? You alone have the words of life. I spread out my hands to You today. Amen.
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DAY 4 — THE BOLD QUESTIONS OF FAITH
Theme: Questioning God is not the opposite of faith; sometimes it is faith at its most honest and bold.
OPENING PRAYER
Lord, You are not threatened by my questions. You invited them. Teach me to question You not as a doubter walking away, but as a child running closer. Make my prayers bolder, and my trust deeper, as I learn to reason with You. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING — Psalm 88, verses 10-13 (ESV)
10 Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 But I, O Lord, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.
DAILY TOPIC
In verses 10-12, Heman turns from describing his pain to arguing with God. His reasoning is bold and almost startling. Essentially he is saying: "Lord, if I die, I won't be able to praise You. If I'm silenced, Your steadfast love won't be declared. So deliver me — because my praise serves Your glory." He is appealing to God's own reputation and God's own delight in being worshiped.
Is this disrespectful? No — it is the exact opposite. You only argue like this with someone you trust to listen. A child argues with a parent because the child believes the parent cares. Heman's questions are not the questions of unbelief; they are the questions of a man who knows God's character well enough to appeal to it. He knows God is a wonder-worker, that His love is steadfast, that He is faithful and righteous — and so he calls on God to act consistently with who He is.
Verse 13 is the hinge: "But I, O Lord, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you." After all the questions, the direction is unchanged — still toward God, still praying, still showing up in the morning. That is the mark of lament done faithfully. The questions do not push Heman away from God; they pull him back, again and again.
LIFE APPLICATION AND FOLLOW-UP EXERCISE
God would rather have your honest questions than your silent distance. Bring Him the "why."
Exercise: Write down one honest question you have been carrying for God — the kind you have been afraid to say out loud. It might begin with "Why...?" or "How long...?" or "Where are You in...?" Now do something bold: read the question aloud to God as a prayer. Then add Heman's words from verse 13: "But I, O Lord, cry to You; in the morning my prayer comes before You." Commit to showing up to pray again tomorrow morning, even if the question remains unanswered.
CLOSING PRAYER
But I, O Lord, cry to You. In the morning my prayer will come before You. I bring You my questions, my whys, my how-longs. You are not diminished by them, and I am not faithless for asking. Keep me coming back to You each morning. Amen.
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DAY 5 — FAITH THAT STAYS IN THE DARK
Theme: Psalm 88 does not resolve into praise, and that itself is a gift — it teaches us that faithfulness can look like staying, even when the lights do not come on.
OPENING PRAYER
Lord, I have come to the last day of this psalm, and there is no neat ending. Help me to receive that as grace. Teach me a kind of faith that does not depend on the darkness lifting by sundown — a faith that stays, that keeps crying out, that trusts You with the unresolved. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING — Psalm 88, verses 14-18 (ESV)
14 O Lord, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me?
15 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.
16 Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me.
17 They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together.
18 You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.
DAILY TOPIC
Most lament psalms eventually turn. Psalm 13 moves from "How long?" to "But I have trusted in your steadfast love." Psalm 22 moves from "My God, why have You forsaken me?" to praise in the congregation. Psalm 88 does not. It ends with the words, "my companions have become darkness." There is no recorded rescue, no praise breaking through, no tidy resolution.
And that is exactly why Psalm 88 is in the Bible. God made room in His Word for a prayer that does not get fixed. That tells us something profound about the kind of God we worship: He is not embarrassed by the seasons of His people that do not wrap up neatly. He knows that some pain in this life will not be resolved until the life to come.
But Psalm 88 is not the end of the story. The Bible's larger arc points to Jesus, who entered the deepest darkness of all — who was "afflicted and close to death," who cried out the forsaken-cry of Psalm 22, who was laid in a grave. And on the third day, God answered. He did not leave His faithful One in the pit. Every unanswered "why" of Psalm 88 is gathered up into the resurrection of Christ, where God declares once and for all that darkness does not have the final word — He does.
So if you are in a Psalm 88 season — one that has not yet turned — you are not failing. You are in good company with the Son of God Himself. Faithfulness may look, for now, like staying in the dark and still calling Him "God of my salvation." That is enough. He will not let the darkness win.
LIFE APPLICATION AND FOLLOW-UP EXERCISE
Some prayers stay open in this life. The exercise of faith is to keep praying them anyway, and to trust God with the resolution.
Exercise: Look back over these five days. Where did you turn toward God, name your trouble, wrestle with His sovereignty, ask bold questions, and stay in the dark? Write one sentence summarizing your current prayer to God as a result. It might simply be: "Lord, I am still here, and You are still my God." Then, in an act of hope, read Romans 8:38-39 aloud as a closing promise: neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Even the darkness of Psalm 88 cannot do that.
CLOSING PRAYER
O Lord, why do You hide Your face from me? I have asked, and I have not yet received the answer I long for. But I am still here — still calling You the God of my salvation. I entrust my unresolved prayers to You, the One who did not leave Your own Son in the grave. Carry me through this darkness. Bring me at last to the morning of resurrection. In the name of Jesus Christ, who is risen, I pray. Amen.
DAY 1 — TURNING TO GOD IN THE DARK
Theme: The first movement of lament is simply to turn toward God and cry out.
OPENING PRAYER
Lord, God of my salvation, I come to You today not with polished words but with an honest heart. Some days I arrive full of faith; other days I arrive barely holding on. Teach me, through the prayer of Heman, that the first act of faith in a dark season is simply to turn toward You and speak. Incline Your ear to me today. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING — Psalm 88, superscription and verses 1-2 (ESV)
A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
1 O Lord, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you.
2 Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry!
DAILY TOPIC
Before Heman describes a single sorrow, he does two things: he turns toward God, and he names who God is. "O Lord, God of my salvation." Notice he does not say "God who will fix this" or "God who will explain this." He calls God his salvation — even before anything has changed. Then he tells the truth about his prayer life: it is constant, "day and night." The opening of lament is not a dramatic solution; it is a stubborn direction. Heman's face is turned God-ward, even when everything else is dark.
The superscription tells us this psalm was written by Heman the Ezrahite and was set to music to be sung in worship. That means God's people did not hide this prayer in a drawer — they sang it. A prayer born in pain became part of the congregation's songbook. Your honest cries belong in worship too.
LIFE APPLICATION AND FOLLOW-UP EXERCISE
Today, practice the first movement of lament: turning. Before you ask God for anything, simply address Him and name who He is to you.
Exercise: Write one sentence that begins, "O Lord, God of my ____." Fill in the blank honestly — salvation, mercy, patience, comfort, or even "whom I do not yet understand." Then write the words: "I cry out to You today." Carry that sentence with you. Say it aloud at least three times today — once in the morning, once midday, once before bed.
CLOSING PRAYER
O Lord, God of my salvation, I cry out to You this day. Let my prayer come before You. Incline Your ear to my cry. Even when I have no answers, keep my face turned toward You. Amen.
———————————————————————————
DAY 2 — NAMING THE TROUBLE
Theme: Lament gives us permission to tell God the honest truth about our condition.
OPENING PRAYER
Lord, You already know the trouble in my soul, yet You invite me to speak it aloud. Save me from the false piety that pretends everything is fine. Today I bring You the real condition of my heart. Hear me as I name it. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING — Psalm 88, verses 3-5 (ESV)
3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
4 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,
5 like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.
DAILY TOPIC
Heman does not minimize. He does not say, "I'm having a hard week." He says his soul is "full of troubles," his life is "drawing near to Sheol," he has "no strength," and he feels "cut off" from God's hand. That is the language of someone at the bottom. Lament refuses the temptation to spiritualize pain away or to make it more palatable than it really is. God can handle the honest diagnosis.
Notice the progression: trouble fills the soul, then closes in on the body, then threatens relationship with God Himself ("cut off from your hand"). Suffering rarely stays in one place. It leaks from the soul into the body, into relationships, into our sense of God's nearness. Naming the trouble — accurately and without dressing it up — is the second movement of lament. You cannot bring to God what you will not first admit.
LIFE APPLICATION AND FOLLOW-UP EXERCISE
God is not asking you to dramatize your pain, but He is inviting you to stop hiding it — from Him and from yourself.
Exercise: On a piece of paper, complete this sentence honestly: "The trouble in my soul right now is ___." Then write a second sentence describing how that trouble has affected your strength, your body, or your sense of God's nearness. Read both sentences aloud as a prayer: "Lord, this is the real condition of my soul. I am not hiding it from You." Resist the urge to soften it.
CLOSING PRAYER
Father, my soul is full of troubles, and I bring it to You unedited. You are not shocked by my weakness, and You do not turn away from my honesty. Receive the truth of my heart today, and stay near me in the pit. Amen.
———————————————————————————
DAY 3 — WHEN GOD SEEMS THE SOURCE
Theme: The hardest part of lament is acknowledging that God Himself may be the One whose hand we feel in our suffering.
OPENING PRAYER
Lord, this is the hardest part. It is one thing to suffer at the hands of people or circumstance; it is another to feel that Your hand is in it. Help me to be honest with You the way Heman was honest — and help me to keep trusting You even when I do not understand. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING — Psalm 88, verses 6-9 (ESV)
6 You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.
7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah
8 You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
9 my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O Lord; I spread out my hands to you.
DAILY TOPIC
This is one of the most unsettling passages in the Psalms. Heman does not blame the devil, the economy, his enemies, or his own mistakes. He says, "You have put me in the depths of the pit." "Your wrath lies heavy upon me." "You overwhelm me with all your waves." He attributes his suffering directly to God. And yet he keeps praying: "Every day I call upon you, O Lord; I spread out my hands to you."
How can someone accuse God and cling to God at the same time? Because the God of the Bible is big enough to be both the One who allows the suffering and the only One who can deliver from it. Heman has nowhere else to go. Even his relationships have collapsed — companions shun him, he is "shut in so that I cannot escape." When every other door closes, the prayer that remains is the prayer that matters.
We see this same pattern at the cross. Jesus is delivered up "according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God" (Acts 2:23), and on the cross He cries out the opening words of another lament psalm: "My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46). The dark hand of God and the love of God meet at Calvary. If you feel God's hand heavy upon you, you are walking a road Christ Himself walked.
LIFE APPLICATION AND FOLLOW-UP EXERCISE
It is possible to be angry with God and faithful to God at the same time. The key is to bring the anger to Him rather than away from Him.
Exercise: Read verses 6-9 again slowly. Underline or circle every "You" — every place Haman addresses God directly as the actor in his suffering. Then ask yourself: Have I ever felt that God Himself was the source of my pain? Have I told Him that, or have I only told other people? Today, take five minutes to tell God directly. Use Heman's own words if your own will not come: "Lord, it feels like You have put me here." End by echoing verse 9: "Even so, I call upon You; I spread out my hands to You."
CLOSING PRAYER
Lord, Your ways are higher than mine, and sometimes Your hand feels heavier than I can bear. I do not understand, but I will not turn away from You — for where else can I go? You alone have the words of life. I spread out my hands to You today. Amen.
———————————————————————————
DAY 4 — THE BOLD QUESTIONS OF FAITH
Theme: Questioning God is not the opposite of faith; sometimes it is faith at its most honest and bold.
OPENING PRAYER
Lord, You are not threatened by my questions. You invited them. Teach me to question You not as a doubter walking away, but as a child running closer. Make my prayers bolder, and my trust deeper, as I learn to reason with You. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING — Psalm 88, verses 10-13 (ESV)
10 Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 But I, O Lord, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.
DAILY TOPIC
In verses 10-12, Heman turns from describing his pain to arguing with God. His reasoning is bold and almost startling. Essentially he is saying: "Lord, if I die, I won't be able to praise You. If I'm silenced, Your steadfast love won't be declared. So deliver me — because my praise serves Your glory." He is appealing to God's own reputation and God's own delight in being worshiped.
Is this disrespectful? No — it is the exact opposite. You only argue like this with someone you trust to listen. A child argues with a parent because the child believes the parent cares. Heman's questions are not the questions of unbelief; they are the questions of a man who knows God's character well enough to appeal to it. He knows God is a wonder-worker, that His love is steadfast, that He is faithful and righteous — and so he calls on God to act consistently with who He is.
Verse 13 is the hinge: "But I, O Lord, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you." After all the questions, the direction is unchanged — still toward God, still praying, still showing up in the morning. That is the mark of lament done faithfully. The questions do not push Heman away from God; they pull him back, again and again.
LIFE APPLICATION AND FOLLOW-UP EXERCISE
God would rather have your honest questions than your silent distance. Bring Him the "why."
Exercise: Write down one honest question you have been carrying for God — the kind you have been afraid to say out loud. It might begin with "Why...?" or "How long...?" or "Where are You in...?" Now do something bold: read the question aloud to God as a prayer. Then add Heman's words from verse 13: "But I, O Lord, cry to You; in the morning my prayer comes before You." Commit to showing up to pray again tomorrow morning, even if the question remains unanswered.
CLOSING PRAYER
But I, O Lord, cry to You. In the morning my prayer will come before You. I bring You my questions, my whys, my how-longs. You are not diminished by them, and I am not faithless for asking. Keep me coming back to You each morning. Amen.
———————————————————————————
DAY 5 — FAITH THAT STAYS IN THE DARK
Theme: Psalm 88 does not resolve into praise, and that itself is a gift — it teaches us that faithfulness can look like staying, even when the lights do not come on.
OPENING PRAYER
Lord, I have come to the last day of this psalm, and there is no neat ending. Help me to receive that as grace. Teach me a kind of faith that does not depend on the darkness lifting by sundown — a faith that stays, that keeps crying out, that trusts You with the unresolved. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING — Psalm 88, verses 14-18 (ESV)
14 O Lord, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me?
15 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.
16 Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me.
17 They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together.
18 You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.
DAILY TOPIC
Most lament psalms eventually turn. Psalm 13 moves from "How long?" to "But I have trusted in your steadfast love." Psalm 22 moves from "My God, why have You forsaken me?" to praise in the congregation. Psalm 88 does not. It ends with the words, "my companions have become darkness." There is no recorded rescue, no praise breaking through, no tidy resolution.
And that is exactly why Psalm 88 is in the Bible. God made room in His Word for a prayer that does not get fixed. That tells us something profound about the kind of God we worship: He is not embarrassed by the seasons of His people that do not wrap up neatly. He knows that some pain in this life will not be resolved until the life to come.
But Psalm 88 is not the end of the story. The Bible's larger arc points to Jesus, who entered the deepest darkness of all — who was "afflicted and close to death," who cried out the forsaken-cry of Psalm 22, who was laid in a grave. And on the third day, God answered. He did not leave His faithful One in the pit. Every unanswered "why" of Psalm 88 is gathered up into the resurrection of Christ, where God declares once and for all that darkness does not have the final word — He does.
So if you are in a Psalm 88 season — one that has not yet turned — you are not failing. You are in good company with the Son of God Himself. Faithfulness may look, for now, like staying in the dark and still calling Him "God of my salvation." That is enough. He will not let the darkness win.
LIFE APPLICATION AND FOLLOW-UP EXERCISE
Some prayers stay open in this life. The exercise of faith is to keep praying them anyway, and to trust God with the resolution.
Exercise: Look back over these five days. Where did you turn toward God, name your trouble, wrestle with His sovereignty, ask bold questions, and stay in the dark? Write one sentence summarizing your current prayer to God as a result. It might simply be: "Lord, I am still here, and You are still my God." Then, in an act of hope, read Romans 8:38-39 aloud as a closing promise: neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Even the darkness of Psalm 88 cannot do that.
CLOSING PRAYER
O Lord, why do You hide Your face from me? I have asked, and I have not yet received the answer I long for. But I am still here — still calling You the God of my salvation. I entrust my unresolved prayers to You, the One who did not leave Your own Son in the grave. Carry me through this darkness. Bring me at last to the morning of resurrection. In the name of Jesus Christ, who is risen, I pray. Amen.
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