Sometimes we can get so caught up with life’s stresses, disappointments, and complexities that we forget to go to God with them.
Perhaps we feel as if we are carrying the weight of the world on our own shoulders.
We somehow believe that we are facing burdens alone. It can certainly feel like that sometimes.

It is in those moments when we need God most of all.
Sometimes we see God most clearly through the prism of our tears.
Or the silence of our hearts.
Or acknowledging that our souls long for God.

Hear the words of the Psalmist today:

“As a deer longs for flowing streams,
    so my soul longs for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God,
    for the living God.
When shall I come and behold
    the face of God?
My tears have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me continually,
    ‘Where is your God?’

These things I remember,
    as I pour out my soul:
how I went with the throng
    and led them in procession to the house of God,
with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,
    a multitude keeping festival.
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.”
~Psalm 42:1-6, NRSVUE

Love,
Pastor Lauren

Photo by Rev. Lauren Ostrout. 

Thursday Thoughts 3/12/26