Updated on: 4/21/2011
It is dark in this world, very dark.  Like the deepest darkness of the night before the first pale light breaks.

Humanity, individual human lives are in turmoil, defeat and despair.  Your own too, maybe, but surely in your family, in your neighborhood, in every small town and big city, all over the world, lives are in a shambles.  Brokenheartedness for daily life abounds.  Abuse of every kind and imagination is rampant.  It is enough to break the heart of God to see lives and life as they are today.

Physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, hate, and deceit reign in probably one household out of five.  It is heartbreaking; it is horrible to know the pain so many people are in, lost and alone, without a clue how to mend or fix or change their lives or the lives of those they love or loved.

The truth is, we cannot fix these lives by any earthly means:

Counselors and ministers fail, laws and judges fail, psychiatrists and medical doctors fail.  Lives are too shattered to be fixed with mandates and court orders, empty suggestions, changes in thinking, pills or promises.  We as a people worldwide are hopeless and helpless, going through the days of our lives patching this, hiding that, ignoring what we have to, denying what we cannot bear to face in our lives and in the world.  We are beyond any kind of earthly hope. We are drugged-up, doped-down, prescription and nonprescription pills alike, and the problems persist, nothing changes except to get worse, our despair deepening into abject hopelessness, confusion and paralyzing fear. 

Lost and alone, people are powerless to change the despair and ugliness of their own lives and equally impotent to affect a change in any other life.  We don't know where to begin because every decision we might make is intrically linked to so many other factors.  No matter what we do or don't do through long days and nights and years, we have not been successful in changing one heart, and hearts are what need to be changed.

We are afraid to leave abusive relationships because we have no resourses to start anew and no idea how to. 

Our lives have disappeared into the void of time; we cannot even remember what our dreams for them were ~ 10, 20, 30, 40 years lost in shame and brokenness.  We are bound in confusion and helplessness, so we continue to enable and empower the abusers by propping them up, hiding the horrible truth of our lives, denying the dreadful reality of our situation, hoping against hope that we can find a way to fix it. 

Afraid to stay and afraid to leave, we are trapped.  The years drag on and lives by the millions are wasted and lost forever. 

It's enough to break the heart of God, and He weeps, He mourns for the millions who have allowed their lives to be plundered, ripped asunder and shattered by any means, but most of all He sorrows for the lost souls . . . . .

and He waits

and weeps

and waits

In Your Darkest Hour
When Teardrops Fall ~ Bruce DeBoer