When you feel terrible for no particular reason

Friend, do you ever have those days where you just feel all around terrible for no particular reason? Physical malaise, exhaustion, a short temper...it’s not who you are at the core, but you can’t seem to shake it. You’re not sick, but you just feel crappy.

Yeah, me too.

So what do you do?

I choose to sit in the presence of the One who welcomes my not-okayness with all its tears and moans and pleas of “Why, God?”

During today’s bout of feeling absolutely terrible, I got up, drove myself to a park where I wouldn’t be found, and sat with my journal, Bible, and worship music.

I opened my Bible to Psalm 139 because I thought it might comfort me and guide my prayer time, and then the wind flipped the page back to Psalm 136.

Have you ever read that psalm before? After every phrase (each detailing the highs and lows of the journey of the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land), the author writes, “His love is eternal.”

What if our testimonies sounded like that?

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good.
His love is eternal.
He alone does great wonders.
His love is eternal.
He led me away from _____.
His love is eternal.
He walked me to _____.
His love is eternal.
He raises the weak
His love is eternal.
and he humbles the strong.
His love is eternal.
He equipped me to work for His glory.
His love is eternal.
He stood by me in times of suffering and strife.
His love is eternal.
He remembered me in all of it.
His love is eternal.
Give thanks to the God of heaven!
His love is eternal.

When my soul feels heavy with the weight of the world, I turn to the One who helps carry this burden, the One who knows suffering more intimately than anyone else who ever walked this planet.

His love is eternal.

hallelujah.

glory be.