Our loving God travels with us in solidarity knowing all about our weaknesses and anxious hearts. He travels with us in our valleys of discouragement and resistance always ready to renew our hearts. The prophet Isaiah underlines this truth as he affirms that the Valley of Discouragement will become a place of refreshment and repose. Our ultimate state is not one of sadness or conflict but one of ‘shalom’, joy and abundance all flowing from the hand of our creative, saving God.
