Maggie Allard-Shartzer Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor-S

06/15/2025

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06/15/2025

Bring on the new week!

06/15/2025

I picked up my phone off the nightstand with dread. Anxiety filled me at what I knew I would find there — other people enjoying their lives while I cried about mine.

Lord, am I going to feel like this forever?

There was no relief in sight, and it was hard not to feel frustrated, fed up, and forgotten by God.

Maybe you know this season all too well. You’ve been hurting deeply for so long. You expected to handle this better, to be stronger when everything came crashing down. But it’s OK that you’re feeling weak and unsure. God wants you and me to let go of having to figure it all out and instead let Him do what He does best: save us.

In the Old Testament, the Israelites never expected their freedom journey away from slavery to take so long or be so hard. But God took them through the wilderness to teach them dependence on Him and ultimately bring them into the good land He had prepared for them.

In reference to that time, the Lord said: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest, the LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you” (Jeremiah 31:2-3, ESV).

God hears our cries for deliverance. He has grace for us in our wilderness.

As I walked through my own wilderness, I realized that all the things I thought were breaking me, God was using to make me more like Jesus. Will we dare to remember the heart of God when we don’t understand why He’s not fixing our most hurtful situations? Will we trust that we’ll find grace in our wilderness? Will we believe that God has rest for our worn-out souls and that He will never stop loving us?

Regardless of how we feel, we can stand in confidence that God will continue to be faithful.

-Ashley Morgan Jackson

What area of your life is making your soul exhausted today? If you stop to look, where can you see God providing grace in this season?

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May we strive to love as He loves!

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