Honest in Our Hurts

Pile your troubles on God's shoulders -- he'll carry your load, he'll help you out.
Ps 55:22, The Message

"It is easy to be honest before God with our hallelujahs; it is somewhat difficult to be honest in our hurts; it is nearly impossible to be honest before God in the dark emotions of hate. So we commonly suppress our negative emotions. ... But when we pray the psalms, these classic prayers of God's people, we find that will not do. We must pray who we actually are, not who we think we are, not who we think we should be.

In prayer, all is not sweetness and light. The way of prayer is not to cover our unlovely emotions so that they will appear respectable, but expose them so that they can be enlisted in the work of the kingdom."

Answering God, God's Message for Each Day by Eugene Peterson.