Healing the broken hearted

"You say the Lord heals the broken-hearted, but he doesn't seem to be healing me."
This week's 'awkward text' (Psalm 147:3) seems to put God in the dock. Does God really live up to this amazing claim? What does this text say to those whose heart is broken?
Many of us can tell stories of times when we were broken hearted but slowly, gradually, God comforted us and restored us. Some will say that they are now in a better and deeper place than they were when everything went wrong.  We need to hear these valuable stories.
This Psalm does not tell us to believe so that our hearts will not break; it tells us that God is there when it all goes wrong. It tells us to look up and to look out. It says that God lives and dwells in his creation. He dwells in outer space, in weather systems, in the food chain, in the growth of plants and animals. He lives in things we think are unclean.* He is there when our hearts break.
This Psalm says that God has ultimate understanding.  A city, once crushed, is being rebuilt. This is part of God's plan to put everything right.  This is the bigger story that the Bible tells us, which we believe. 
More on Sunday ...

* That may be the point of verse 9, as ravens were considered unclean according to the Law of Moses.