Hurting and Struggling, We Still Trust GOD's Plan and Will

GOD, when we call, do You hear us? Currently, life is difficult. Though we have not lost anything, there are stretches of time when this burden is more than we can carry. Sometimes, we feel so hollow and void of optimism. We both have felt lost. Savior, we know You are El Shaddai, and You will deliver us. We know this because, You are Strong and Mighty. I am so happy that Your Strength, becomes ours when we are weak and submitted. We have and still are holding on, but have been pushed to the brink of giving in. We believe in You and know that You are still with us.

What about you?

Are you crawling through the valley? If you are too, hold tight to the hand of Him, Whose love will comfort us all! There will be times when we will feel that all hope has departed us. I have not been there. I was near that door, and its knob.

GOD's Comforting Spirit has always sustained me and my lovely bride. He will sustain you as well.

When someone you know and love is battling the seemingly unbearable pain and desperateness, the agony becomes more evident in you as well. Why is that? I believe that you recognize their hurt more than you focus on your own. It is here where you are "loving your neighbor." It is here that you can exercise selflessness--instead of self-interest. This is where I am with my honey, and I am confident that she has taken the same position with me. Someone has to stand and step towards the hurting.

Who will go toward you? Who will come to us? Come closer ADONAI. We have been wounded. Sometimes it feels like all that is left to do to us is to throw dirt on us. ...no self-pity. ...no self-indulgent time in the mire. We are modestly trying to be open and real with you, the reader and You, our Lord.

You are the only One Father, Who can and does understand where we are. Our help comes from You (Psalm 121).

When the Father is your strength, He is all the comfort we, you, or anyone will ever require.  We know what brokenness is about. We understand how it feels. You can't tell by our outward appearances that we are hurting, but rest in this reality... We are!

How are you doing? Is it real enough for you to talk about and share your pain? Does the hurt you feel keep you from giving your all? Does it make you want to stop in your tracks and fall to your knees? Yeah?  What do you think we are feeling?

All that is within us is crying out to our Messiah and King. Save us oh Lord! This is too heavy alone. It is a bit better when we suffer together, but, we are not able to feel the pain that resides inside of the other. Honesty, faithfulness to Jesus (Yeshua) and His Mercy sustains us.

You must know, we are broken, but You alone can mend these hearts of ours. You are always with us. Even though we feel so lonely. We have never been here before. Man! ...the places we have been previously can't compare to what we are working through today. GOD, You never said it would be easy. Call to us. Speak to us. We will meet You on the waves. You did say that You would be there with us through the stormy trials. Sometimes You calm the storms, with a whisper, "Peace, be Still."  

Knowing that You are with us and will keep us is enough. ...should be enough. It will be enough. We still hurt though.