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I have spent all day trying to figure out what to write today. You would think that between my morning devotional, 2 Sunday School lessons, a great sermon, and a nightly devotional, I would have been able to figure it out a lot easier than I did. Nonetheless, it finally came to me when I was searching for a verse of encouragement for one of my best friends who is going through a tough time right now. What I found is a simple blog that deals with doubts and praise, something that we all go through at some point and time in our lives. Instead of expanding on it, I'm going to just post the psalm below. Feel free to comment me with what your response to what the psalmist is saying.

May God guide all of you this week. I'll be praying.

Your Fellow Water Walker,
-Ashlee

Psalm 42
 ¹ As the deer pants for streams of water,
   so my soul pants for you, my God.
² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
   When can I go and meet with God?
³ My tears have been my food
   day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
   “Where is your God?”
⁴ These things I remember
   as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go to the house of God
   under the protection of the Mighty One^[d]
with shouts of joy and praise
   among the festive throng.
 ⁵ Why, my soul, are you downcast?
   Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
   for I will yet praise him,
   my Savior and my God.
 ⁶ My soul is downcast within me;
   therefore I will remember you
from the land of the Jordan,
   the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
⁷ Deep calls to deep
   in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
   have swept over me.
 ⁸ By day the LORD directs his love,
   at night his song is with me—
   a prayer to the God of my life.
 ⁹ I say to God my Rock,
   “Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
   oppressed by the enemy?”
¹⁰ My bones suffer mortal agony
   as my foes taunt me,
saying to me all day long,
   “Where is your God?”
 ¹¹ Why, my soul, are you downcast?
   Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
   for I will yet praise him,
   my Savior and my God.

*New International Version