When You Can’t Catch a Break

Easter Devotional 2023 - Week 6

I will hide beneath the shadow of your wings until the danger passes by.

(Psalm 57:1 NLT)

With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.

(Jeremiah 31:3 NLT)

The sheer absurdity of these problems

could almost make me laugh.

Just as one trouble fades, two more appear.

Like a game of endless Whac-A-Mole.

Unbeatable. Absurd.

In our desperation and flooded minds,

blessed are we when we cry out:

God, help me,

here,

now.

Blessed are we who look for you, oh God.

You who promise to comfort us

in our troubles.

and sing over us in the night.

You who promise to strengthen our hearts.

Blessed are we, who hope…still…

that some small good might yet be done.

Yet at this moment may it be enough

just to be.

May our eyes close, and soften into stillness.

For God is awake.

God, have mercy.

Christ, have mercy.

Spirit, have mercy.

Amen.

A blessing from Kate C. Bowler’s 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days