# Living Psalm 30_Elsa Anders Cook

I want to sing. I want to break forth in song to God for things that I don’t understand because nothing feels certain. 

Everything feels precarious and tentative, like a wolf might attack at any minute and there is no one to help. 

We are a world at war. Again. 

Massive amounts of weapons are being sent to the people of Ukraine in the hope of peace. I cannot even comprehend it but anger has not been just a moment. It has persisted as furiously as hate and greed. And I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to claim other than joy. 

So I will sing for my joy in the struggle because the dust of this war will linger just as it has for other wars, large and small. It will cling to our feet through every protest and still we will struggle. Together, we will sing for things that we can’t quite explain but still believe to be possible. 

We will sing because God is that good. God will be my joy in this struggle and the next. God will always be my joy.