A Griever's Lament ~ God's Response

I am told to take life one step at a time, but it is so dark, I can’t see the chasms to my right or left and I am afraid to move forward.  It feels like each day I am stumbling in the dark, which leaves my emotions bruised and battered. When sorrow is my constant companion, how am I to wake up and enter into the activities of “normal” people?