A cycle of confusion, so constant, that contentment can never take root. Band-Aids don’t heal and time never cures. You’re surviving, but you’re far from living. Your day becomes about holding it together, but inside you are crumbling.
Maybe its pain inflicted upon you by another. Your heart is unsafe. You long for true acceptance and unconditional love. Your level of peace is being constantly aware and managing your actions, denying your own desires if needed, or even talking about them. You try and you try until you realize that even if perfection were possible, it wouldn’t be enough. Callous words leave your heart numb, and yet somehow you still feel the pain. Every time.
Maybe you’re at war with yourself. Choices in life have left you devastated, guilty, or full of shame. Or you have something going on inside of you. It doesn’t have a name or a known reason for being there. It’s sad. It’s angry. It’s depressed. It’s stressed. It’s hopeless. So… you enlist. You enlist in a losing battle plan of addiction, self harm, or abusing others.
Only the One who made us can restore us back to wholeness. In the midst of your raging storm, I pray you look to Him ~ where your release and your peace is found.
Peace
Crashing waves
Bruise my shore
Howling winds
Torrential rains
Pelt my skin
Lightning bolts
Come again
Turbulent waters
Staggered stance
Cycle repeated
In this dying dance
Trembling knees
Strike the ground
To where help is found
An instant hush
The storm to cease
All at once
A soul at peace…
