“The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him” (Psalm 28:7, KJV). You have heard the saying, “Buck up, be strong” when hard things happen. The idea is that we are to grit our teeth and push through whatever we are facing. We are tough. We can stand. We are not quitters. Right. Sometimes life knocks us right on our backsides. Sometimes we have no strength to