We have been called to hazardous living on this planet.

And I believe as God draws us to a place of greater and greater intensity and rejoicing in our worship,

in the full stretch of the highs and lows of it, bringing our full lament and then our full released laughter

that we are entering into a becoming of personal psalmist.

I want to read Psalm 16 to you tonight out of the NIV.

This is the Psalm that I, the translation rather, of the Psalm that I first began to love this section of Scripture in. So Psalm 1.26, when the Lord restored the

fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter,

our tongues with songs of joy.

Then it was said among the nations,

the Lord has done great things for them.

The Lord has done great things for us,

and we are filled with joy.

Restore our fortunes, Lord.

Like streams and the de gav.

Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.

Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow,

will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.

Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.

The power in that lyric, hearing in those few verses, the full stretch of the emotions,

not just from sadness to joy, but from tears to laughter.

So to me, it is even further than the sadness or the joy in that it is the manifestation of each.

Joy that then becomes throwing your head back and laughing, sadness that becomes the outpouring of tears, this full

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