Lord, I have been so defeated by circumstances. I have felt like an animal trapped in a corner with nowhere to flee. Where are you in all this, Lord? The night is dark. I cannot feel Your prescence.
Help me to know that the darkness ir really "shade of Your hand, outstretched caressingly"; that the "hemming in" is Your doing. Perhaps there was no other way You could get my full attention, no other way I would allow You to demonstrate what You can do in my life.
I see now that the emptier my cup is, the more space there is to receive Your love and supply.

~Catherine Marshall
Adventures in Prayer


Help me to see that although
I am in the wilderness
It is not all briars and barrenness
I have bread from heaven,
Streams from the rock.
Light by day, fire by night,
Thy dwelling place and thy mercy seat.
I am sometimes discouraged by the way,
But though winding and tring,
It is safe and short.

~Puritan Prayer
The Valley of Vision