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Sunday Psalms;

I will sing of the Lord's unfailing love forever! Young and old will hear of your faithfulness.
Psalms 89:1 NLT

Well this is quite a change from Heman's Psalm 88, this one is written by Ethan the Ezrahite. 
There's a lot of praise to God, recalling his greatness, his selection of David as king and all that followed in the first part of the song. 
And then there's a shift in Ethan's story, it talks about rejection and God's anger and things collapsing, and a wondering of where God is in a mixed up world that doesn't seem to be working how God said, or how he wants or expects it to be. 
Maybe there's something you can relate to in Ethan's song, that the world we live in can seem so broken, that every thing is a mess, that the perfect life is only for others to experience.
We have an ally in Ethan the Ezrahite who's song gives us permission to write our stories, our laments, our hopes and our griefs.
And Ethan also asks us to hold our stories within the Bigger Story of faith as he bookends his song with his promise to sing of God's unfailing love:

"Praise the Lord forever! Amen and amen!"
Ezra
Psalm 89:52

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