• in recent article in The Washington Post the  headline read the corona virus pandemic is pushing   America into a mental health crisis anxiety and  depression are rising and according to a Kaiser   Family Health Foundation poll nearly half of  Americans report the corona virus is harming   their mental health a federal emergency hotline  for people in emotional distress registered a   more than one thousand percent increase in April  compared to the same time last year last month   twenty thousand people texted that hotline the  fear of contacting the disease the loss of jobs
• the isolation from our friends and for children  from their classmates the collapse of our economy   has many Americans afraid in despair and for many  depressed and then we turn on our televisions and   we watch one of the most heinous crimes in our  history as a white police officer puts his knee   into the neck of a black man and holds it there  until he has snuffed out his life I do not have   words in my vocabulary to express how angry  and upset I am over this that should never   happen anyplace on God’s green earth let alone  on American soil that police officers assault
• was not just an assault upon George Floyd it was  an assault on all of us and especially on other   good and-and-and proper police officers whom we  love and treasure and support I’m grieved and   I’m appalled that this could happen in our country  god help us and God forgive us and then activist   groups seized upon the moment and send in their  anarchists to burn down the city so is it any   wonder that we’re depressed we’re all under  pressure and it’s palpable so once again we   turn to the Psalms and david was also a man who  understood pressure a different kind to be sure
• but he was a man of vision a wise military and  governmental leader even a man gifted in music   and poetry and dancing but he dealt with pressure  both before and after he became Israel’s second   king as a result like many people who love and  trust God David struggled with discouragement and   despair in depression he especially coped with  a weather turbulence during his fugitive years   David was fleeing for his life from the wrath  of King Saul and he had to bolster strength and   courage through devastating days of fear facing  many of these things alone he turned for solace
• to music and worship as well as the comforts of  writing about his feelings in fact students of the   Psalms believed that David wrote at least eight  different Psalms during the years that he was   running away from Saul the superscription beneath  the heading of our Psalm Psalm 142 tells us we’ve   come to a contemplation of David a prayer when  he was in the cave David was running away from   the most powerful man in his world nearly always  outnumbered and without the support of anything   close to the armament of his enemy in fact on one  occasion saul had over thirty thousand men looking

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