God, Meet Me In My Tears - Alice Wisler

Chances are, you are spending time in tears and questioning. Something I’ve found helpful is writing your questions on a sheet of paper or in a journal. Don’t judge them or yourself, just freely write. Unleash them, release them from your heart and mind onto the page. Think of this as a service you are doing yourself—letting the pent-up emotions flow onto the paper through your hand. Let the paper share some of your woes for a while so that you don’t have to carry everything inside your heart. Bottled up grief can make our hearts heavy; sharing it with a friend, even the friend of a journal, can alleviate some of our confusion, frustration, or loneliness.

Next, open your Bible to the book of Psalms and read a few of the ones that pertain to sorrow. Read them aloud. Read the verses that speak to your heart over and over. Mark the verbs that you can relate to. Some that deal with tears and crying out are Psalm 18, 61, and 40.

Prayer 
God, meet me. Meet me in my tears. Bring others to walk with me. Sustain me. Lift me up. I want to believe that you are close to the brokenhearted (Ps. 34). Help me in this time of need when it’s hard to see straight and even more difficult to have hope. Amen.

~Excerpt from Getting Out of Bed in the Morning:  Reflections of Comfort in Heartache by Alice J. Wisler (Leafwood Publishers)  http://www.alicewisler.com

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