by darkness for long periods of time. They can attend church services, pray prayers, and be in fellowship, and yet find no improvement. Things don’t always work themselves out quickly in the believer’s life, but God is there. Tim Keller, in his excellent book, Walking with God in Pain and Suffering, notes that prayers like Heman’s in Psalm 88 are an encouragement to us because they show that God didn’t censor the prayers in Scripture. Christians do at times pray like the psalmist. Sometimes we are