March 20, 2011: Plastic Smiles – Michael Hidalgo

There are a lot of things that we are bad at in this world. One of them is sorrow. We just do not seem to do well with. We live in a culture of denial. A culture that believes if we can turn the noise up loud enough, then the cries of our hearts will no longer exist. Make no mistake, the cries are still there, they just cannot be heard. 

This is a dramatic departure from the Psalms. Most of which are laments. A crying out to God in despair, heartache, sorry … a Psalm that says, “God I believe in you, but this sucks, so please be the God I believe you are.” The lament carries with it a firm embrace of who God is, and an embrace of our broken world.