Sunday Psalms;

Psalms 137:1-4 CEB

Alongside Babylon's streams, 

there we sat down, crying 

because we remembered Zion.

We hung our lyres up in the trees there

because that's where our captors asked us to sing; 

our tormentors requested songs of joy: "Sing us a song about Zion!" they said.

But how could we possibly sing the LORD's song on foreign soil?  

Psalms 137:1-4 CEB

And we're back with lament...lament and sadness for the loss of place, of land, of connection.

Lament for loss of freedom.

Lament for what was.

It's OK not to be OK when something, or someone, important to us, is lost. 

It's OK to cry. 

This song laments the culture that the writer finds him or herself in that doesn't want to tolerate sadness and loss, just wants songs of joy to be sung...

So this song invites us to just be real about what is wrong, what is going on in our outer world that isn't right, that isn't just, and the impact on our inner world.

It's OK not to be OK.

We don't have to be completely captured by our culture, we get to choose to be real, and that may well include tears, and that's OK.

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