This Isaiah passage has always comforted me.  I read it every time I send an email because it is my email “signature.” At this time of uncertainty, we are strong in the Lord.   We are strengthened by our hope in the Lord.   He is with us as we soar on wings like eagles.  Because of this, we can run and not grow weary or walk and not be faint.

A prayer from our Evangelical Lutheran Worship, pg. 76. 

“O God, where hearts are fearful and constricted, grant courage and hope. Where anxiety is infectious and widening, grant peace and reassurance.  Where impossibilities close every door and window, grant imagination and resistance.  Where distrust twists our thinking, grant healing and illumination.  Where spirits are daunted and weakened, grant soaring wings and strengthened dreams.  All these things we ask in the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord." 

Amen.

-Barbara Oster