Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! The depths are real—life is deeply beautiful and deeply distressing. Sometimes we don’t have it all together. In these moments, it is tempting to mask our own situation or, when someone else is in the depths, to try to fix their situation. When facing the depths, I’m learning to pause. To let the depths be what they are. I try not to jump quickly to fixin

There’s nothing like an emergency room or a critical care unit in a hospital to give a person a kind of perspective, a window into suffering and pain, on all different levels. In the depths. Overwhelmed by the chaotic waters. It’s real. It hits home. This is where some people are regularly at, more often than any of us would like to admit. When we read Psalm 130, we aren’t sure whether it’s the depths of sorrow or grief, or the depths of emotional frustration or psychological

A Lent Reflection for Saturday, March 25th By Amanda Munroe Lectionary reading: Psalm 130; Ezekiel 36:8-15; Luke 24:44-53 Selected...