How Long, O Lord?

Surgery on my nephew, the rape in Haile, news that Stephen Curtis Chapman's 5 year old daughter died tragically, plus the ever-present struggle with our indwelling sin. This has pushed me again to lamenting, and wanting you to know this lost language of worship. Unless we grieve the hard things of life, and plumb the depths of God's goodness & sovereignty... i fully believe we will become hardened, cynical, rebellious, self-pitying, etc etc.....

How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
How long must I take counsel in my soul
and have sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,”
lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.

But I have trusted in your steadfast love;
my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
I will sing to the Lord,
because he has dealt bountifully with me. --Psalm 13