When Life Seems Too Hard

What carries you through difficult times? What can you do when problems or heartaches seem beyond your ability to survive?

The following incident retold by Steven Kapp Perry, an award-winning songwriter, playwright and broadcaster, might help you to find an answer to that question.

At the end of WWII, when the remaining prisoners in the concentration camps were freed, an anonymous inscription was found carved into the wall of a cell. Consider the situation of the writer. Then consider with what difficulty these lines were carved into the wall.

‘I believe in the sun even when it is not shining.
I believe in love even when I don’t feel it.
I believe in God, even when he is silent.’

With a declaration of faith, this writer avowed that even if God did not seem to be answering in the way he wanted, he still believed.

We might ask ourselves, how is that possible?

The answer.

Because he remembered.

He remembered that the sun always returns after the dark of night.

Even in the horrors of war he was able to remember what love was. What it felt like and that it was possible to feel it again.

And his past experiences had given him faith that there was a God even if he seemed at the moment to be silent.

Can you remember?

Can you remember the sun on those figurative and literal cloudy days?

Can you remember the love you have felt in the past on those days when you miss that certain person or are just feeling alone?

Can you remember the love God has for you, even when experiencing hard times and He seems not to be near?

Maybe instead of can we should ask, will.

Will you remember?

With love,