It is not at all unusual to question God when we are grieving. We wonder why God hasn't answered our prayers; because he took our beloved; because he didn't intervene to stop something terrible from happening. We wonder if God is truly good if he allowed something like this to happen. Some people will have a crisis of faith and may turn away from God for a time. We may even be angry at God and hold Him responsible for some tragic event. There was one particularly tragic and violent death of a little girl. She was the picture of pre-adolescent innocence. She was popular at school, good at sports and was the apple of her parents' eye. We'll call her Susie (not her real name). It was hot outside and little Susie called her work mom. He let his mother know that he was home from school and wanted to get permission to go to the corner store a couple of blocks away for a soda. She never came back. She was kidnapped, brutally raped and murdered by a perverted predator of a man. Susan's parents were obviously devastated. How could something so horrible happen to their innocent little girl? Both of his parents were basically good people. They went to church occasionally and tried to raise their children to be good people. Their entire world had been turned upside down and now they were getting community and media attention they never wanted. Susan's parents struggled with what happened. They went from being in a state of despair to searching for answers to the questions of why. For more than a year they did not know who had killed their child. Sometimes they wondered if they would ever know exactly what had happened. Susan's mother embraced her faith and became a regular attender at the neighborhood church... middle of paper... him to make him bitter. He maintained a compassionate and respectful heart for the king, because he was God's anointed. In addition to that, his closest friend in the world, Jonathan, was also dead. Whenever David was grieving, he took up his pen and wrote. Some of the most beautiful Psalms were written by David in the most difficult moments of his life. When you are in pain, when you are grieving, when life seems to be more than you can bear, you can turn to the Psalms. The Psalms of David express one man's harrowing experiences of pain. An interesting point about the Psalms is that many of them begin to speak of pain and anguish so great that he doesn't know if he will survive. Sometimes he even asks, “Where is God?” Yet each of these Psalms ends with praise and thanksgiving to God for His faithfulness. These Psalms teach us how we can survive our pain.