Growing in Resilience
Day 3, Read Isaiah 42
Reflection: Lead On, based on Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know, by paths they have not known. I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them. 

Darkness looms before us
Isolation, Prejudice, Falsehood,
Division, Fear, Hardheartedness,
Evil, Injustice, and Oppression in all the forms they present themselves

We are blind
Unable to see the answers
and the other

We are blind
Groping for a path through this valley of shadows
A way forward

We are blind, but we are not forsaken
You see what we cannot
And you are near
With us and for us

Even the darkness is not dark to you
The night is as bright as the day

The way is unknown to us, but not to you
It is new to us, but not to you
You go before us
Leading
Guiding
Leveling the ground
Turning the darkness into light

Hallelujah!
Lead on, Savior
Lead on
We surrender and follow
Lead on!

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