Good morning…
“If you extend your soul to the hungry,” she said, “and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will dawn in the darkness and your darkness shall be as the noonday.” From Colorado to Atlanta, the slow, soothing voice of my spiritual direction supervisor reached me through the phone, giving me the gift of Isaiah 58:10 (NKJV).
God’s living Word washed over me, freeing me forward, casting my daily vision.
- Extend your soul to the hungry.
- Satisfy the afflicted soul.
God asks us all to ask ourselves, “Who in my corner of the world is hungry today?” For me, it is a shocked wife cheated upon by her husband, a loved one dropping from mania to depression, and families caring for cancer survivors as they near the end of their rich earthly journey.
We are each drawn to ask God, “Today, what afflicted soul might I help to satisfy?” For me, it is devastated parents learning to live on after burying a child, polarizing people in desperate need of God’s powerful peace, and spouses grieving the loss of a soulmate to cancer, to suicide, to an ugly divorce.
Who is it for you today? Homeless people or hopeless flood victims? A newborn baby or a failing parent? An addicted loved one or a hurting friend?
If we extend our soul (our heart, our mind, our spirit) to the hungry, afflicted soul (satisfying their heart, their mind, their spirit), then God promises us two life-changing things. Our own light will dawn in incredible darkness and our own darkness will be transformed, steady as the noonday sun.
Now my slow, soothing voice reaches you, “If you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will dawn in the darkness and your darkness shall be as the noonday.”
…Sue…
