Eclipse

Inspired by a recent sermon by David Wilkerson that I read entitled "An Eclipse of Faith".

Eclipse

By: R. A. Slater

05-08-08

Why do You hide?

Why do You leave me alone?

Your hand which covered me

Now covers Your face from me

Withholds Your presence

Keeps Your very breathe

Afar off

The barest shimmers

Along the edges of perception

Serve to remind me

Of the past glories

Of how things used to be

Instead of reminding me

That You are not completely gone

My heart cries out for Your return

Even as I deal with the anger

Over Your departure

Not understanding WHY?

Why God?

What did I do to deserve

The absence of You?

Can't You see

What this is doing to me?

How I can't breathe?

How I stumble and fall

Because I can't see

In this diluted darkness

Of this eclipse?

I wish that I could give up

I long to give up

But something keeps prodding me

A faint glimmer of hope perhaps

A last shred of faith

That this too shall pass

That You will return to me