But like David in Psalm 13, we can still praise God even in the storms of our lives. We can come along side those in pain reflect God’s love with our presence and with a listening ear and a shoulder to cry on.
An essay by Walter Brueggemann entitled “The Psalm as Limited Expressions” tells of limited expressions are words and phrases that push one to the extremity of human experience. How Long O Lord is a limit expression phrase. It’s a phase that one utters when one is pushed to the limit of human expression. He argues that such utterances resist the thinness and the flatness and refuses a safe managed life. Such utterances challenges the pre-packaged life where we live off the baby food of cliché and the familiar, and yet have to
