Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Robert H. Schuller

You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

Heather O'Reilly

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Greg Anderson

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

John Wooden

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Winston Churchill

Living certainly has its low times. Having low times is part of life for us all. Those low times can be brought about by accidents, by bad choices, our own or others. If you have read my stories you know that I know them from experience. I have had many low times, some very bad. I had a friend murdered. I almost lost my wife and son to sickness. There have been some that I have yet to write about. We have all had low times. I can’t imagine anyone not having to go through some kind of trial. The good thing is that we all can call out to God to come and rescue us, to show us mercy. That is the flip side of low times. They hurt, but they also bring us closer to God. In other words, when life brings us low when it breaks our hearts, God lifts us up.

You may be in a low place right now, but hold on, God is on His way to lift you up. You will be okay.

Derrick.

Psalm 79: 1-13

A psalm of Asaph.

1 O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;
    they have defiled your holy temple,
    they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
2 They have left the dead bodies of your servants
    as food for the birds of the sky,
    the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.
3 They have poured out blood like water
    all around Jerusalem,
    and there is no one to bury the dead.
4 We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
    of scorn and derision to those around us.

5 How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever?
    How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out your wrath on the nations
    that do not acknowledge you,
on the kingdoms
    that do not call on your name;
7 for they have devoured Jacob
    and devastated his homeland.

8 Do not hold against us the sins of past generations;
    may your mercy come quickly to meet us,
    for we are in desperate need.
9 Help us, God our Savior,
    for the glory of your name;
deliver us and forgive our sins
    for your name’s sake.
10 Why should the nations say,
    “Where is their God?”

Before our eyes, make known among the nations
    that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.
11 May the groans of the prisoners come before you;
    with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.
12 Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times
    the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.
13 Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture,
    will praise you forever;
from generation to generation
    we will proclaim your praise.