Though we talked on the phone, it was not hard to picture her face. Previously, she had sat in my office with puffy red eyes—tears streaking her cheeks. The struggles she had victoriously worked through, rose before her again. Her husband, a worker in the medical industry, had been exposed multiple times to the coronavirus. As a result, this sweet woman was now quarantined to work at home. She sat alone in her empty nest while her husband, with a myriad of health problems of his own, manned the front lines.
Anxiety, depression, and anger filled her.
“It’s hard,” she cried, “it’s so hard.”
There are times when we have to stop and agree that, “Yes, this is hard.”
And yet, we must never lose sight of the fact that no matter how overwhelming our life looks, it is never impossible. With love and compassion, we must take our weary fellow travelers (and sometimes ourselves) to the hope we have (Romans 12:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 2 Corinthians 1:3-4; Romans 8:18-25).
Gently, we remind them that our Good Shepherd walks with us through each valley, but long before David
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