... yet You

brought up my life from the Pit,

O LORD my God.

When my soul fainted within me,

I remembered the LORD,

and my prayer came to You...

                       Jonah 2. 6-7

(The pit of despair

   is not the end of the story.

"Yet God..."

           changes everything,

the course of my story,

the trajectory of my life,

the condition of my heart.

The miry bog

        is a place of deliverance,

not where God intends me to dwell,

no matter the circumstances.

God will not bring you through this;

    He IS bringing you through this.)