GOD WALKS

 My mother's life was dark and stormy at times. She was bi-polar. She wasn't diagnosed until she was in her 80s--she only knew she was

When dark storms characterize my life
I remember there is no darkness with God

"different". I remember many nights lying in my room listening to her sob in her room. Often  I arrived home from school to find her in her bed with the covers pulled over her head. Her deep depression, despondency and sadness impacted the entire family. I also remember times when she was the life of the party. Some days I would arrive home to find her tearing out a wall in the kitchen or tackling a major re-landscaping of the garden. It was not something we talked much about with other people. When mom wasn't able to be in church or at school functions we just said she was "not feeling well". Very few people understood her struggles. When Mom was diagnosed as bi-polar she was thrilled. She said, "I knew there was something wrong and now I finally know what it is!"

During one of the stormy times of her life, when she felt the darkness closing in on her, she wrote a poem of faith. When storms trouble me, I read it again and feel my mother's heart once more.

GOD WALKS

If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me:

even the night shall be light around me."

Psalm 139:11 (KJV)

O, weary child, upon life's rugged way,

With shoulders bowed beneath a crushing load,

And bleeding feet from thorns along the way

That tear and cut all through the blazing day--

If sun and flowers are faded now from sight,

And  moon and stars reluctant give no light, 

Remember still--

God walks the velvet blackness of the night..

God walks--He ever searches all the ways

To find His child, in cheerless toil along the road;

To wipe the tears from eyes that blinded gaze

On weary miles of ever winding ways--

To softly speak his name, as healing light 

Like gentle rain illuminates his flight;

Remember still--

God walks the velvet blackness of the night.

God walks--oh, never think you are alone!

Or that He doesn't care about your cries;

There's not a child of His to Him unknown--

He knows, God knows, the ones who are His own.

So put your hand in His, walk in His light,

And everything one day will be made right

Remember still--

With God there is no blackness in the night.

~~Vera Miller

Mom is in Glory now. All the dark nights of her life are past and all the storms are stilled. Soon we will join her where there is no darkness--God is the light of that future home. 

"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." Revelation 21:4 (KJV)

Sunrise is coming!