God's Comfort > Your StormsSample

You're Tethered to a Love That Keeps You Safe

“Let me tell you about deep love. Yes, stand before me. Yes, offer me what you can. Give me your attention and focus as much as you can. ... As you stand here, lay out your hands in surrender, thinking of the ways you pull inward and the ways you drift about on the sea of distraction. Can you see it? Can you feel it now? ... It is a turbulent sea, and you feel you are alone in it, the waves tossing you while you are no longer at shore but pulled where you can no longer stand, your feet and arms urgently moving as you bob up and down on the waves.

"Where am I? Are you alone? Yes, keep standing before me now as I speak with you. You are on the waves, but you are standing with me right now, yes? You are with me, but you are not with me, you realize. For I am pushed to a forgotten place within you as you tend to your own survival. But come back again. Here, you stand with me. And yet you push me out again, forgetting me as the day pushes you this way and that, the waves knocking you about, so it feels like you have no control. You have no control over the waves, only how hard and how well you swim. So you feel the way to survive is to learn how to swim more effectively and more efficiently.

"Yes, can you picture it? While you stand here with me, while I talk with you ... can you also let yourself see where you often are during your days amid the waves? How do you feel there? Give yourself a moment. Let me help you access your heart. ...You see, my child, I know. And why do you look down now, away from me? Why are you still struggling to stand here with me as you speak to me about the waves?”

What words are you clinging to right now?