it seems so many people are enduring a season of insanity...by that, i mean, things going badly in seemingly random and sudden ways...people trying to follow their path and meeting roadblocks...even people having relationships just suddenly change when the other person flakes out or gets angry or leaves, for no known or understandable reason...
i feel the collective sigh of a weary world...the past two days almost everyone i encountered had a story of some woe...it's not that i was around a bunch of whiners...these were genuine troubles from confused and hurting people...
a family with one angry child now claiming to be an atheist and trying to get their young siblings swayed to their worldview...a child having a very tough time adjusting in school and getting in trouble all the time and failing in their classes, but so obviously hurting and in need of help...
a woman who burst into tears as she hugged me and told me she had been and was in the darkest period of her life...that she didn't want to leave the house or see anyone...i cried right along with her...her pain was so palpable...i knew a little of what that feels like...longing for relief from the dark night of the soul...
everything being shaken...
everyone...everything longing for relief...for hope...for answers...for help...
and so we say with the psalmist, "i will lift up mine eyes unto the hills...from whence cometh my help? my help comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth." ... "give us help, oh God, for vain is the help of men."
Papa...please bless these hurting people...this suffering world. Grant us peace. Give us deliverence. If you will not work on our behalf, there is no hope. So, please look down in mercy and bring breakthroughs in these situations...bring relief. Take this suffering from us all and give us JOY. Amen.
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