Psalm 88: When Life Gets Worse

Psalm 88 is the prayer you read when you’re out of inspiring words and you’re tired of pretending you’re fine. We sit with what many call the darkest psalm in the entire Book of Psalms, a song that doesn’t wrap up with a tidy “everything works out” ending. Instead, it starts with faith and keeps telling the truth, holding onto “God of my salvation” while describing the very real weight of grief, loneliness, and feeling forgotten. We talk about why this kind of biblical lament belongs in the ...