FreeStyle Friday~ Anything I Wanna Do... Singing the Laments of the Psalms as a Spiritual Discipline

In the imprecatory laments, the petitions can be shockingly horrifying (e.g. individual lament-Psalm 109 and community lament-Psalm 137). On the face of it, one wonders how anyone had the “nerve” to articulate such seemingly vindictive thoughts to God, let alone allow such words to be recorded. But the laments have an essential and marvelous function: by offering them up to God, we have the capacity to see our odious meditations and desperate thoughts transformed into something acceptable (Ps. 19:14), and because we are able to express our feelings toward The Counselor, we are provided with an alternative to outwardly expressing them through either words or actions toward our enemies. As we ventilate our feelings and process them through the filters provided by the Holy Spirit, he searches, tries, sees, and leads us (Psalm 139:23-24) toward healing.