Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Allison.

Today's scripture offers us a wiser way of being human as we step into the day.

Recently, I had asked you, my listeners, to write in with topics or even specific scriptures

you'd like me to address on this daily podcast.

One of you wrote this. I would love you to do a

short podcast on how to carry burdens that feel too heavy, sometimes even punitive and often unfair,

while still knowing, or at least trying to know, God's grace in the middle of it all. I thought this

was such a tender and honest question, because there

are seasons when life does feel like that, heavy, unclear, unfair. And in those moments, we don't always

need easy answers. Sometimes we simply need language for the ache and a way to stay connected to

God inside of it. Today's scripture is Psalm 13.

How long, O Lord, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart?

How long will my enemy triumph over me?

Look on me and answer, Lord my God.

Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death, and my enemy will say, I have overcome him,

and my foes will rejoice when I fall. But I trust in your

unfailing love. My heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing the Lord's praise, for he has been good

to me. Psalm 13 is one of the shortest Psalms in the entire book of Psalms, just six verses.

And yet it captures one of the deepest human experiences, the feeling of carrying something

that feels too heavy for your heart. The psalm opens with a question that echoes through

centuries of human prayer. How long, oh Lord? How long will the situation

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