" Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners of affliction and in irons.
They reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wit's end.
Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.
He turns a desert into pools of water, a parcheld land into springs of water.And there is lets the hungry dwell.
He raises the needy out of affliction.
Let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord."
( Taken from Psalms 107)
There is a deep hunger and thirst in our city.
Precious souls faint and exausted.
Invisible, sitting in many different types of darkness.
Prisoners of afflictions.
Dear ones reeling and staggered.
The young girl in need of food and water daily
But, her hunger for love from men is stronger,
her thirst for acceptance and worth
is much deeper.
The older woman sleeping on a stack of dirty blankets so physically needy,
weary eyes spilling over with lonliness cut off from her family
Faint and exausted.
The young man who has been abused as a child,
now facing a vulnurable adulthood, offering his body to older men.
Unfathomable darkness.
The older man's life of affliction led to an addiction.
He feels hopless and worthless.
He is reeling.
He is staggered.
These precious children are the beloved.
They have been created and formed by their maker, father.
May they cry out to the Lord in their trouble, may they experience deliverance from their distress. He is able to turn their deserts into pools of water. Their parched land into springs of water.He provides a place for the hungry to dwell.He longs to raise them up out of their afflictions. May they come to know the steadfast love of the Lord.
