I FELT STUCK ON TWO FRONTS. I wanted to leave my job and start a new career, but the timing didn't seem right. And I had been battling physical pain for a couple of days, and it seemed like it was getting worse.
I didn't know what to do. I felt as though I had prayed every prayer I knew, and I was also having treatment from a Christian Science practitioner. But I was still afraid and feeling cut off from God. So when a friend came to keep me company, I asked her to read me some psalms from the Bible. I thought they might comfort me and help me feel safe.
I heard lots of psalms that day. "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength," my friend read. "The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust." Ps. 18:1, 2. "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?" went another. "The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" Ps. 27:1. And then, "O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved." Ps. 66:8, 9.
