¿Cómo se dice...?

Not knowing the exact word to describe something is one of my biggest annoyances. But that's where I'm at right now...unable to describe exactly what I'm feeling. I've tried out several words, but none seem to fit just right.

This is about the time I turn to those who have written before me. Instead of trying to decide one word that says what I feel in its entirety, I'll let some others do the talking. They'll at least be able to do some summarizing.


"Don't know why I'm still afraid
If you weren't real I would make you up now
I wish that I could follow through
I know that your love is true and deep as the sea
but right now everything you want is wrong,
and right now all your dreams are waking up,
and right now I wish I could follow you to the shores of freedom, where no one lives." - Joseph Arthur

"Let my cry come before you, O LORD;
give me understanding according to your word!" - Psalm 119:169

"Well I looked my demons in the eyes, laid bare my chest
Said do your best to destroy me
I've been to hell and back so many times, I must admit, you kinda bore me
There's a lot of things that can kill a man
There's a lot of ways to die
Yes, and some are already dead who walk beside me
There's a lot of things I don't understand
Why so many people lie
It's the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me
Will I always feel this way?
So empty, so estranged?" - Ray LaMontagne

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul,
a hope both sure and steadfast - Hebrews 6:19

"I don't know how your love works
Or how you cover me in grace
I don't know how you swallow all I am
when I can't stand my taste
All I know is the bleeding in my heart
and the healing in your touch
All I know is that you gave everything
so let that be enough...it's all I know" - Matt Wertz

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. - Ephesians 3:20

"The pathway is broken
And the signs are unclear
And I don't know the reason why You brought me here
But just because You love me the way that You do
I'm gonna walk through the valley
If You want me to

Cause I'm not who I was
When I took my first step
And I'm clinging to the promise You're not through with me yet
so if all of these trials bring me closer to you
Then I will walk through the fire
If You want me to

It may not be the way I would have chosen
When you lead me through a world that's not my home
But You never said it would be easy
You only said I'd never go alone

So when the whole world turns against me
And I'm all by myself
And I can't hear You answer my cries for help
I'll remember the suffering Your love put You through
And I will go through the valley if You want me to" - Ginny Owens

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. - Romans 8:26

"Two things you told me:
That you are strong
And you love me" - Jon Foreman

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." - Jeremiah 29: 11-12

"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief." - CS Lewis

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. - Romans 12:12

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another." - Thomas Merton

He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. - Psalm 23:2-3

"...even the most unjust and cruel things, as well as all seemingly pointless and undeserved sufferings, have been permitted by God as a glorious opportunity for us to react to them in such a way that our Lord and Savior is able to produce in us, little by little, his own lovely character." - Hannah Hurnard