“How long O LORD?” – Psalm of Lament

A Dark Night's Moment

gritty
tears
heart
broken

Lament 
a painful prayer
that veers down 
the road of sorrow
but is the pathway 
back to joy 
if willing to pilgrim 
through it

resolved
forward

“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19

“You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.” – Psalm 16:11

The Dark Night of the Soul (La noche oscura del alma) is a poem and journey described by the 16th-century poet and mystic St. John of the Cross.  Today, the phrase “dark night of the soul” is used to describe a crisis of faith or a difficult, painful period in one’s life. 

re·solved: to come to a definite or earnest decision, firmly determined to do something, intent, insistent, hell bent on

for·ward: toward or at a place, point, or time in advance, onward, move ahead, being in condition of advancement