Sing to the Lord a new song. The instruction feels cruel when you are drowning. But the new song is not the old triumph in a fresh translation. It is the music of wounded hope — quieter, gritter, sung by bodies that have decided to keep going. Over four reflections, we walk through what that song actually sounds like, and the slow discovery that you have been singing it all along.
Psalm 88 is the only psalm in the Psalter that does not turn. It begins in the dark and stays there. No yet, no but, no light at the end. Over the next four reflections, we walk slowly through it — what it means that the canon contains a prayer with no resolution, and what it gives the believer who is also without one.
Wounded Hope: Finding God when your Story Breaks is written for the believer who has done everything right and still found themselves in the wreckage of a story that did not hold. It is not a recovery program.
It is not a roadmap back to the faith you had before. It is a companion for the long road — honest about the wound, serious about grace, and written for the person who is still in the middle of it.
