4/7/2023 0 Comments Dark reader![]() If you’ve been singing your life’s songs in the darkness of sadness, physical suffering, self-doubt, or isolation, or if you simply want to learn to sing hope, no matter your circumstances, I invite you to join me as I share my story and we study the songs of Scripture. But this courage, it seems to me, grows as we sing. It takes courage to sing in the dark, especially in moments when our stories don’t make sense to us. When our songs are directed toward God, the giver of song and healing, they ultimately bring us hope and joy. But singing in the dark can heal us and change us. Avoiding brokenness doesn’t bring redemption. Ignoring the darkness doesn’t make it light. We choose not to sing.īut what if we did? What if we sang songs of hope in our darkness? Of lament in our pain and brokenness but also of the coming wholeness? What if we sang of both our suffering and our coming glory? What if we sang of the eternal joy that will outlast and ultimately triumph over our sorrow? Wouldn’t such songs give us the hope and joy to overcome the darkness now? We block it out, or we turn up the noise of our busy lives to distract ourselves. So we do our best to avoid the brokenness within and around us. This reading plan is about more than just warbling a song-it’s about creating and practicing a mindset, one that I am convinced is the only way to walk through this life with joy in every circumstance. True, deep, unshakable hope that comes from knowing that God broke into our darkness, conquering it once and for all. But in any darkness we face, I am certain we can learn to sing of hope. And there’s the darkness that keeps us from face-to-face encounters with God this side of heaven, calling us to rely on faith (1 Cor. ![]() ![]() There’s the darkness that keeps us from clearly seeing the path ahead, the haze of uncertainty as we make our way through the world. Whether you resonate with one of these categories or not, because you’re a human being, you know what it is to do battle with darkness. Perhaps your darkness has come in the form of a painful loss, a chronic or terminal illness, deep loneliness, addiction, or perpetual anxiety and sadness. I, personally, lost my eyesight when I was three because of optic atrophy and several degenerative eye conditions. ![]()
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