 A lot of us grow up believing that having faith means putting on a smile and acting like things are great when in reality our world is falling apart. But there's no pretending in the cry of the psalmist, no effort to gloss over the horrors that surround him or his disappointment in God. And yet, he still believes. In the cry of the psalmist, we see the sword of authentic and defiant faith we all long for. The kind of faith that emboldens us to be brutally honest with God and empowers us to look defiantly at a broken and dying world and continue to believe that resurrection is just over the horizon.