I am told that the chief Rabbi of Ukraine has asked Christians to join him in reciting Psalm 31 for the beleaguered cities tonight, so I thought I would also post this poetic reflection on that harrowing and comforting psalm.
Psalm 31 is one of those psalms that express best the paradox of the whole psalter: that even when we feel like we are falling apart we are still held together by God, even when we cry to God that we have been forgotten, God still remembers us. So even though the…