“Lord God … my need is great”

isaiah delivers the message of the Lord:
“I AM the first and the last. there is no God
but Me.” and it is just like israel to forget. just like me …

it’s my half-birthday today. what account could i give of my
days, weeks, hours; what record of that everlasting aching need
no created thing can fill? but if what the prophet says is
true, there is no small mercy—only a remembrance infinitely great.