A Prayer for When it Feels Like Winter Will Never End - Your Daily Prayer - March 4
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A Prayer for When it Feels Like Winter Will Never End
By Gregory Coles
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens." (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
Dear God, Why is it so hard for me to believe that spring is coming?
It's silly to doubt it, I know. In all my years watching the seasons pass, spring has never once failed me, no matter how tardy it may seem. The sun always comes home from a long vacation to melt the forlorn snow. The grass emerges, a little brown at first, then verdant and full of life. The birds return, making nests, whistling solos into a warm blue sky. No matter how long it takes, winter always comes to an end.
But even though I know it's true—even though I've witnessed it year after year—I'm struggling to believe in spring right now.
The world has been grey for so long that I barely remember what it looks like in color. My memories of brighter days have frozen over in the cold, dangling like icicles just out of reach. Hope is hard to hold onto with frostbitten fingers.
Why is it so hard for me to trust that You'll keep Your promises?
My wintertime despair is about far more than winter itself. It's the same doubt that overtakes me in every season of difficulty, every setback and sorrow. No matter how many times I've seen Your faithfulness in the past, each new dark day pushes me back to the edge of my seat. I hold my breath, poised in suspense, wondering if grace could possibly come through this time.
My memory is so short. |
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Making the Psalms a consistent part of our time studying the Bible is enriching and important. The Psalms are meant to be sung and prayed, and there are specific psalms that were written to help us when life it bleak and we feel miserable.
The individual and communal laments are the largest category of psalms. These psalms lay a troubling situation before the Lord and ask him for help. They can be about broad community problems or individual struggles. There are also songs of confi |
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