“Saw you standing in the middle of the thunder and lightning. I know you feel like you just can’t win, but you’re trying. It’s hard to keep on keeping on when you’re being pushed around. Don’t even know which way is up, you just keep spinning down, round, down. Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day. Every heartache will fade away, just like every storm runs out of rain.”

Gary Allan, Lyrics and Music

Sooner or later storm clouds come into our lives, and it tears our hearts out when sorrows come. The sadness engulfs us, threatening to overwhelm us. Our eyes fill with tears, our hearts are heavy, we struggle to find the light, struggle to find Him, to hold on while our knees buckle beneath the weight. At times the hurt is so buried in our hearts that only our Father is able to understand the pain, and during those times we don’t believe the sun will shine again, that we will laugh again. Our hearts ache and we feel lost. We want to shut the world out and heal our wounds. Pain so unbearable we can’t speak or eat, and it is hard to look on the bright side, when you have been taken by surprise at something that you never saw coming and during those times we wonder why bad things happen to good people. The eternal “Why?”

“There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” Job 1:1

Job lost all of his wealth, servants, children….. “Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground,and worshipped, And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away: blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.” Job 1:20-22

Job lost his health, and his wife said unto him in Chapter 2: 9, “……Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.” His wife, the love his life, instead of sympathizing told him to “curse God and die.”
“In all this did not Job sin with his lips.” Verse 10

In these times of severe trials, tribulations, sorrow, let the faithful child of God trust in Him to see us through…..He saw me through, and He will see you through. II Corinthians 12:9-10, Romans 8:28

“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities: but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:14-15

“Grief changes us
The pain sculpts us
Into someone who,
Understands more deeply
Hurts more often
Appreciates more quickly
Cries more easily
Hopes more desperately
Loves more openly.”

Eileen Light