Just a few years ago horrible sadness lead me down farther and farther into the dark tunnel of overwhelming grief. My thoughts were only of all the bad around me, all the bad that had happened to me and all the bad that would undoubtedly occur soon enough. What brought me back from the rim of that deep abyss? Gratitude for the small things of each day and the prayers of many faithful friends! Recalling the Blessings of God in the past brought Asaph back from the grief of the present and forward to the reality of hope for the future. In Psalm 77 we can see the progression from woe to hope as the author reconsidered how great was his God. Grief is based on mixed up feelings = abstract and untrue. Basically it's based on ME and my interpretations of circumstances. Hope is based on the facts of who God is = concrete and truthful. Hope is based on a reliable GOD. Somehow in the midst of our problems we stop looking...
Just a mama trying to bloom where she is planted in the dry Northeast of Brazil.