My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

 El pastor habla sobre cómo sentir la presencia de Dios y confiar en su guía y protección, incluso en momentos de sentirse perdido y abandonado.

Dios mío, por qué me has desamparado?

 Reflexión sobre cómo enfrentar las pruebas en la vida cristiana, basado en el relato de la viuda de 2 Reyes 4:1-7.

Las pruebas vendrán

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.