Not exact matches
The Psalter gave him a language for
despair, metaphors to describe what it meant to feel poured
out on the ground, melted down like a blob
of wax, dried up like a
broken clay fragment.
Wrung
out by pain and care The anguish
of a million hearts That
break in dumb
despair; 0 crucified Redeemer These are your cries
of pain; 0 may they
break our selfish hearts And love come in to reign.36
It is the cry
of God fully entering into our
broken condition and fully experiencing the sense
of separation from God that sin causes, and crying
out in anguish and
despair over this sense
of loss, «My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?»
The story is well known: on descending from Sinai, in the presence
of the incredible pretension
of the Israelites to make themselves a god (which they could control since they had made it) to replace the mysterious Liberator,
out of anger and
despair, Moses
breaks and destroys the miraculous talisman he was bringing: the stone tables on which God himself had written.
In the premiere episode
of Fun Therapy, Mike Foster talks with Ryan about his struggles, the roles that self - criticism and perfectionism play in his emotional health, and how to
break out of the cycle
of despair.
However, coupled with the news that influential captain John Terry (who has been a defensive mainstay so far this season) will also be
out for the next few months thanks to a
broken metatarsal bone in his foot, a familiar wave
of despair has swept across supporters.
And along the way, they also shared these four tips for
breaking out of a gloomy slump and turning
despair into meaningful action.