Even in Darkness, I will be there

Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief. - Psalm 31:9

In my deep sadness and anger of late, and not even turning to God for strength or comfort, God still sends me his messengers late at night, in pitch darkness to let me know he is with me always.

Oddly enough, in the dead of night without being able to see into the darkness, there is a bird who is somewhere in the distance singing joyfully in beautiful song. She was doing this late last night and is doing so now as I type, even though it is after 1:30 a.m.

This bird isn't just chirping some boring, dull, monotone chirps. She is singing a beautiful song of joy with a variety of chirps which she sings differently, two, three, four times in a row before changing the pitch of her chirps in more ways than is believable.

Even in complete darkness in the middle of the night, God wants me to know that even though I can't see Him he is always there. In a way which only He knows, God sent me this singing messenger of the night in order to help me "get it."

But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, who teaches more to us than to the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?' - Job 35:10,11

And even when I forget that God is always there for me to turn to for strength and comfort, God loves me no matter what and promises......

........'Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you," - Hebrews 13:5