In a Peanuts cartoon, Charlie Brown is sitting at Lucy's psychiatric desk getting absolutely no help from Lucy. With a forlorn look on his face Charlie laments, “Where do I go to give up?"

One great value of the Psalms is that they put into words what we find difficult to express. Most scriptures speak to us. The Psalms speak for us. They enable us to articulate and bring before God our deepest feelings, our greatest fears, the lingering longings of our hearts, the troubled sorrows of our lives. So Jesus hanging on a cross cries out “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (a direct quote from Psalm 22) something He surely learned in Sabbath School.

When I ask grieving families if they have particular scriptures they would like read at a loved one's funeral, nine times out of ten they…