Friends For The Journey

Have you found yourself in trouble lately? Have you felt like your life was an open wound that would not heal?

Sometimes our well-meaning friends tell us that everything is cool, everything will turn out alright…but that is not what we are needing to hear. It feels like an empty platitude. Deb told me that the verse about shaking my head and wringing my hands reminded her a lot of me.

I have been laying in bed lately for up to two or three hours at night … often until 3 am in the morning, and just like the Psalmist, “I can’t even say what’s bothering me.” I do ponder the years gone by, although I don’t often get out my mandolin in the middle of the night. I do also wonder at times how to get my life together.

7-10 Will the Lord walk off and leave us for good?
Will he never smile again?
Is his love worn threadbare?
Has his salvation promise burned out?
Has God forgotten his manners?
Has he angrily stalked off and left us?
“Just my luck,” I said. “The High God goes out of business
just the moment I need him.”

The last line sound quite sarcastic … another similarity to me. Will God NEVER smile again?

To be continued! Tune in next week at this same time and station …..