Sometimes the way before us grows so dark that sorrow falls like fog. Darkness slips over our path and evil slinks through the forest. We can smell its foul odor and hear padding feet. Then doubt fills the hollow places in our souls. In these times, Yahweh seems far away, but he is not.

In these times it is important to cry out to him, even if all you can muster is a sigh. Direct your sigh at him, he will hear. For he is the One the Sacred Writings speak of when they say, “The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

Many of us who continue to walk the Sorrow Way are poor in spirit and in great need of this good news. The news that he has come to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for prisoners. Often we are such prisoners of darkness that we fail to see when the fog begins to lift. But lift it will, dear child, if you wait upon Yahweh. He will bind your broken heart and renew your strength. You need do no more than this, simply wait, simply sigh. Yahweh. Yahweh. Yahweh.

Eagle People … Today’s reading is Isaiah 61:1-3. Pleya gi “Go with Blessings.”

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