Do you ever wonder, “Am I allowed to say that to God?”

Read the Psalms and see how God invites the full expression of our experience, of our feelings, and of our desires. See the language of the psalmist: crying out and expressing joy. Songs of lament and songs of hope. Honest prayers, expressions of frustration, anger, trust, love, and praise.  All of it. All of it was brought before the Lord. And God desires that same thing from us. He desires us to bring all of ourselves before Him.

“We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.”

- C.S. Lewis