Psalm 22 begins, “Lord, why have you abandoned me?” Jesus cried these words from the cross, at the depth of his experience of forsakenness.
Did he also remember these words that come later in the Psalm?
“Yet it was you who brought me out of the womb;
you made me trust in you
even at my mother’s breast.
From birth I was cast upon you;
from my mother’s womb you have been my God.”
So many places you have been, Lord, your presence the warp and woof of life’s fabric. In the midst of despair, memory anchors hope, “Yet it was you…”
