Distress

A Grand Hike in the Woods

May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; Psalm 20:1a

There are times in our life when we feel all alone, carrying this burden that no one else sees or cares about. In reality, we are not alone but watched with a loving heart even when we don’t physically see it. We may see small hints in the peripheral or in a shadow that something much bigger is part of this story. We may never know or find out the “why” until that day we step into eternity. There, with tears in our eyes, in a warm embrace, it’ll come to us. Keep the faith. His eye is on the sparrow, and you (we) are much more valued than any sparrow.

Distress

We’ve all served a time desperate for help
From a friend, a stranger, or God Himself
Wretched in pain, disease, or broken dreams
Grief tearing our core from its inner seams

Memories pass for tears in a salty wash
Bleeding from a soul drowning in thoughts
Some of circumstance of choices once made
Forgotten, left behind, ill-gotten trade

Some brought by nothing of choice or of life
Symptoms arrived from unwarranted strife
Not earned or boughten or placed on account
An error of surmounting unfair amount

Falling to our knees unable to stand
Knocked off composure by an unseen hand
Balled in a knot of weak trembling boughs
In unconscious chorus of woes and no’s

This was David when he lost his son
Or in hiding from jealous spears flung
While holding to a promise heard in part
He was God’s chosen, a man of His heart

The Psalms he wrote still comfort us today
Or give us words when unable to pray
Had his life been easy, affliction free
There’d be no Psalms to comfort you or me