In today's first reading, Isaiah 41: 13-20, we are reminded that God is our God, a God "who grasp[s us by our] right hand" and that God says to us: "Fear not, I will help you." There are, no doubt, times in our lives when God's help seems wanting. In faith we know that it is not! We cry out in pain, in frustration, in helplessness and powerlessness and God seems silent. How often than not, God chooses silence in which to work in the core of our being. It is in the silence of nature in the spring time of the year that all of creation comes to life and new growth appears. It is in the silence of the womb that every human being takes shape. We do not see the growth that is taking place beneath the surface of the earth or in the darkness of the womb, but it is so. So, too, when we call upon the Lord and nothing seems to be happening.
Help us, Lord, when you seem silent or distant to cling to you in faith and hope, not letting a sense of helplessness or powerlessness to drag us into a depression. Remind us, through Isaiah that when we "seek water in vain," and when our "tongues are parched with thirst," that you will, in truth, answer us. Deepen our belief in what you, O God, say to use through Isaiah: "I, the Lord, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I open up rivers on the bare heights and fountains in the broad valleys; I will turn the desert into a marshland, and the dry ground into springs of water....That all may see and know, observe and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, the Holy One of Israel..."
I believe in Your Providence, Your Presence and Your Power, Lord, even when I do not feel such! And you?
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