Written by Kayla Stoecklein, a contemporary author. This is an excerpt from her book “Fear Gone Wild.”
Have you ever tried to walk around your house in the dark?… It’s easy to lose our way when our eyes can’t see. I wonder if the same can be true about our wilderness seasons in life. Those times when we feel like we are aimlessly wandering around in the dark, and the divine presence of light feels far out of reach. As we wander, we wonder, where is He? Why isn’t He showing up for me here? Why did He allow this to happen? What now? We all face seasons in our life and our faith journey where the distance between Heaven and Earth, Him and us, feels endless… The reality of our humanity is that none of us are exempt from the pain and brokenness of this place. We all walk through tragedies and trials, seasons of life where God seems more like a distant elusive entity, rather than a close loving Friend… Truth is, sometimes the lights go out in life and we feel left alone in the dark with our pain. So how do we find our way back to the light? How do we take the next step forward when our eyes can’t see? How do we live with the pain? I don’t have all of the answers, but what I’ve discovered through my own season of deep pain and grief is that the light is always there, we just have to be searching for glimmers of it. God wants nothing more than to be close to us in our pain… He is “bringing light into your night.” Keep holding on. Keep asking Him to help you live with the pain, keep putting one foot in front of the other even when you cannot see where you are going. He is preparing a way and strengthening you along the way. You are not alone. You are loved. Keep going.
Prayer:
Today’s prayer is from the Saram Primer, a book of prayers and Christian worship resources from the 1500s, collected at the Salisbury Cathedral.
Shine your light on us, O Lord,
so that, being rid of the darkness of our hearts,
we may attain to the true Light;
through Jesus Christ, who is the Light of the World. Amen.
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