This blog is to encourage all those who are in the throngs of deep suffering. Never forget in the midst of your sorrows, tragedies, and disappointments, that God is right there with you. I know because I wrote this blog when I was in the throes of my own tragedy. It is my prayer that you will see the flowers of faith that can bloom when we trust and surrender the storms of our lives to Him who sits enthroned above our circumstances.I walked a mile with Pleasure;She chatted all the way;But left me none the wiserFor all she had to say.I walked a mile with Sorrow;And ne’er a word said she;But, oh! The things I learned from her,When Sorrow walked with me.~ Robert BrowningWhat is the prerequisite to plumb the depths of your own soul-- sorrow!  But only if handled in a godly manner.  When you can get a hold on your sorrow and learn to understand ‘him’, you will begin to learn that ‘he’ is the plough necessary to uproot wrongly compacted soil and emotions.  Our souls become trodden down over time and left hardened by the resources of life.  Until an earthquake erupts,  or a trial enters, and tears up the land of our own making, opening up canals and ravines that we never knew existed because the earth of our being was never lifted.  For me, I was settled into the dirt of complacency.Oh how we so need sorrow to better understand joy.  Oh how we need to learn how to let sorrow’s leaves fall gently on our intellect, while raking away the twigs of pity and despair.  Those two can have nothing to do with godly sorrow, for they will prolong the landscaping process always putting it off until tomorrow.I’ve experienced more clarity in trailing sorrow, following ‘his’ beaten path to more depth and control over my emotions.  I have even found ‘his’ irrigation in my life to be the very reason there is no more irritation in my life.  No longer struggling with releasing my will for God’s.  No longer responding to life based on the surface survey; rather resting assured that God’s resources and minerals are within for my souls purvey.  God cannot properly warm me, until I stop wrestling with sorrows blanket.  His comfort wants to flood my souls depths to filling, not just sprinkle my feelings.Therefore, let us ignore the outward commotion, go farther than the shallow emotion, and allow the sorrow of the soul to plunge us into deeper devotion.“For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.  For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner:  What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication!  In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter” (II Corinthians 7:10-11).