113 Shifting Winds

Episodes 113-116 move us from fall to winter at winter solstice. What happens when the winds shift and the days darken? 

Gathering Word:

A Liturgy for those who feel distant from God
by Heidi Johnston
Every Moment Holy Volume III

I recall with longing days when
the waters parted at your command and you
carried me, featherlike, into your presence;
when your lovingkindness was the whisper
that revived my weary soul;
when your presence was the pillar that marked
my path by day,
and your voice the flame that banished darkness
and kindled my song in the night.

Oh God, my God,
Where is your comfort now?

If in this season of loneliness your silence
simply offers me a chance to do what will never
be asked of me again in all of eternity to come;

to trust without sight, believing that time will 
vindicate my hope and prove you ever constant,

then give me the courage to stand, trusting that
these lines I throw out are not cast into emptiness
but, passing through the veil, have taken hold of 
Things eternal.

Give me boldness now,
even as doubt crouches at my door,
that I may choose to anchor my heart
not in the ebb and flow of feelings
But in what I know to be true.

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