We live in times when everything is about making impressions – about putting our best foot forward, showing off our filtered pictures, narrating our best stories, and generally displaying the ‘feel good’ part of our lives. Our interactions with one another are largely on social media. That’s when we get to know what’s going on in one another’s lives. We never really take time to connect with our authentic selves, or find time to deeply connect with others.

And so we find ourselves lonely yet crowded by friends on social media, lonely yet crowded by people in WhatsApp groups, lonely yet surrounded by people in churches and social places.

Lonely, because we cannot find depth and meaning in our conversations.

Lonely, because we lost one another in certain seasons of our lives.

Lonely, because it seemed no one could understand what we were going through at some point in our lives.

And yet it is in this loneliness that God draws us into the Dark Room… where real life images and pictures are developed.

When we have to face who we really are – in a lone and quiet place; where we have to make a personal conversation with God – and take a journey into the depth of our souls.

The dark season draws us to find ourselves and become who God created us to be.

It draws us to find our identity in God, and come to the place where we are not defined by external impressions and perceptions.

We become comfortable in our skin – and accept every part of our journey.

Psalm 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God…”Safari Njema!