Isaiah 44:25 who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,

I had the most troubling dream tonight and I cannot seem to shake the feelings of frustration. The dream was about being caught in a situation of helplessness and the callus attitude of everyone surrounding me.

I turn to the scriptures for some sort of clarity even though I already know the truth.

God’s will be done.

Being hundreds of miles away when someone you love needs comforting is frustrating so we pray. We offer up prayers for those we love all the time and the results of our prayers do not always go as we would wish.

Decades of experience tells us that God’s will is unknown until revealed in some form. For some, the lucky ones, their prayers are answered. The rest of us find ourselves in mourning.

Somewhere between the prayer and the outcome is that feeling of helplessness and frustration, knowing that while prayer is our best option, the outcome is uncertain.

I’ve been on both sides of mourning. Mourn with those who mourn. The only help I ever received while mourning myself came from the Holy Spirit Who came as a cooling breeze to lower the waves of pain and make it just a little bit easier to bear.

I know where these very human feelings of frustration are coming from, helplessness in the face of losing someone I love. God willing we will not lose him and I know my pangs of helplessness are felt by others and I wish I had a comforting scripture to share, but that search only added to my feelings of helplessness.

The best I can offer anyone else feeling as I do is not to lose hope and to continue in fervent prayer.

God willing.