Not Forsaken!

To the utter depths of darkness

Beams the steadfast light of Love

Into every hurt and heartache

Pours its passion like a dove

God, have mercy on our sorrow

God, let your Presence be known

Thou who didst bear every horror

Hears our pleading, needing groan

We are tried but not forsaken

Perplexed, but not in despair

For we know someday we’ll waken

Far and free from this world’s care

Though we stumble, God upholds us

Though we crumble, still we stand

For, to utter depths of darkness

Streams the love from Nail-scarred Hands

© Janet Martin

We remember the hurting in Brussels and include in those prayers a plea for those the whole world over where headlines of hurt and suffering could fill fathoms. God is faithful...

... we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; 

perplexed, but not despairing;  

persecuted, but not forsaken; 

struck down, but not destroyed;  

always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, 

so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.…

2 Cor 4:8-10