Where Is Your God?

During times when the only voice you hear is your own, echoing back to you, as one lost, empty and forgotten, let not you voice fall silent, for no one who prays is ever forsaken or abandoned; and in the silent wilderness of your heart, you will learn to recognize His Voice once again.

Psalm 42

Like the deer that yearns

 for running streams,

 so my soul is yearning

 for you, my God.

My soul is thirsting for God,

 the God of my life;

 when can I enter and see

 the face of God?

My tears have become my bread,

 by night, by day,

 as I hear it said all the day long:

“Where is your God?”

Why are you cast down, my soul,

 why groan within me?

 Hope in God; I will praise him still,

 my savior and my God.

By day the Lord will send

 his loving kindness;

 by night I will sing to him,

 praise the God of my life.

I will say to God, my rock:

“Why have you forgotten me?

 Why do I go mourning

 oppressed by the foe?”

With cries that pierce me to the heart,

 my enemies revile me,

 saying to me all day long:

“Where is your God?”

Why are you cast down, my soul,

 why groan within me?

 Hope in God; I will praise him still,

 my savior and my God.

Father in heaven, when your strength takes possession of us we no longer say: Why are you cast down, my soul? So now that the surging waves of your indignation have passed over us, let us feel the healing calm of your forgiveness. Inspire us to yearn for you always, like the deer for running streams, until you satisfy every longing in heaven.