#anyway earlier this week i read psalm 88 which is a psalm that starts miserable and ends miserable
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Happy Palm Sunday, happy Autism Acceptance Month (and I'll keep saying it!), and if you live in the US, remember to do your taxes by Friday!
#taxes are such an ordeal in the states and i am TIRED of it!!!!! the government *could* calculate our taxes for us but why dont they??#because a bunch of people wanted to turn this into yet another money making opportunity#and so they put the onus of calculating taxes on the individual and made the process convoluted and stressful in order to create a 'need'#to hire companies or individuals to help you with your taxes!!#something that should be free!! isnt!! because slimy businessmen wanted to make a profit!!!! AUGH!!!!!!#there *are free services out there but they are usually not completely free if you want to be thorough and do more than the basic w2#H&R Block lets you file state and federal taxes for free - BUT if you want to calculate and claim any credits there is a fee#and the fee could very well cancel out the credit#i imagine it's even more complicated for folks who are self employed or are on disability etc etc#the whole thing is a sham. i would simply like to receive a little letter telling me what i owe or what i am owed. that would be nice#anyway earlier this week i read psalm 88 which is a psalm that starts miserable and ends miserable#the final verse is basically hello darkness my old friend#and it made me think of the time i was tasked with writing a psalm-like song and so i wrote a song of lament#and i was scolded for not ending it on a hopeful note because all the psalms end on a hopeful note & i need to acknowledge that God is good#and i said no this is a lament and the song is finished. and so i wasnt allowed to put it on the worship album because it was too negative#well guess what! psalm 88 is negative all the way through!! the psalmist complains to God the whole time#and doesn't say 'but yet i will praise you' at the end. he is allowed to sit in the darkness and be in lament#this picture of lament makes many american christians uncomfortable. we dont like a sad song without a resolution. but i do. i need those.#and that song remains one of my favourite i've ever written#sometimes the day ends and there is still darkness. maybe there will be hope tomorrow. but maybe today i just need to feel my pain#something to think about as we enter Holy Week.#love you all. how was your week? that's not a rhetorical question. i would actually like to know#apr 2022#christian
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