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We are continuing our series of reflections on the Psalms. Each day we will upload a new reflection to the website. We hope and pray that you will find them helpful and that they bring hope during this season. Click on these buttons to read the text of the psalm or listen to a recording of it. You can also listen to the reflection using the audio player below. Read Psalm 30  Listen to Psalm 30 This psalm may have been written during a time when Jerusalem had a plague approaching (1 Chronicles 21:18-23). We may feel that we are in a similar situation. David is expressing thanksgiving for God’s deliverance, but he certainly knew fear and experienced dismay; he knew what it was to weep and wail. It seems also that when he feels “secure” and blessed by God he boasts that he will never be shaken. Only in the same verse he expresses dismay at God hiding his face. David’s emotions were up and down. This man of God and anointed king had his wobbles. Some of us may be weeping at the moment and maybe we the church need to weep with you. Jesus certainly had compassion and wept, sharing people’s pain. Are there ways we can virtually stand around those in love, care and prayer, to let them know that our God who came into our painful world came also to turn things around, to bring rejoicing in the morning and to clothe us again with joy? Graham Kendrick, a worship leader and composer, wrote a song of celebration called ‘God is good’. Some years later he wrote another song, ‘God is good all the time’. Thank you Father, that you are good all the time and that you do turn our weeping into dancing and that joy will come in the morning.