Ever have the kind of day when everything seems to be running along nicely, and then something happens? It doesn't even have to be anything big, but it takes you into the depths of darkness with no warning at all. In those moments, it can feel like life swallowed you whole. It's like instant despair, whether you identify the trigger or not! As this happened to me yesterday - totally out of the blue, btw - I thought. Man, that happened fast and outta nowhere! I just kept trying to sort through those crazy emotions. As I thought about the helpless feelings of being swallowed whole by life, my mind went to Jonah. He is one of my favorite characters. He was swallowed whole by a fish or whale that God had prepared just for the filthy backslider. LOL. I thought about how dark it must have been in the belly of the whale. How alone he must have felt. How hopelessness and helplessness must have surrounded his soul as he literally faced the possibility and probability of death. When lif...