This powerful exploration of Psalm 137 challenges us to confront the tension between authentic faith and the pressure to 'fake it till we make it.' We're invited into the raw, unfiltered emotions of the Hebrew exiles weeping by the rivers of Babylon—people who refused to sing their sacred songs for their captors' entertainment. The message confronts our tendency to suppress difficult emotions in the name of faith, asking whether we've been silencing our true cries of heart and soul beneath a polished exterior. Drawing on the ancient philosophy of stoicism and Paul's call in Romans 12 to be transformed rather than conformed, we discover that God doesn't require superficial spirituality. Instead, Scripture gives us permission to bring our deepest pain, anger, and even thoughts of vengeance directly to God. The psalm's shocking conclusion—wishing destruction upon enemies' children—forces us to wrestle with the full range of human emotion in the face of trauma and injustice. This isn't about endorsing violence but about recognizing that emotional honesty is vital to authentic faith. Like the exiles who hung up their harps until they could sing again with genuine hearts, we're encouraged to hold space for our grief, acknowledge our exile experiences—whether literal displacement or spiritual darkness—and trust that there will come a day when hope returns and we can take down those harps once more.