Member of the Creative Writing Class at the Bartlett Senior Center, TN
I wanted to share this b/c Lorraine's Declarations to God blessed me...Danna
I
was sitting on my bed one night. My head felt light and I felt
jittery, my mouth was dry and I felt as if I would faint at any time. I reached over and picked up my blood
pressure cup. “200/100.” This
made me more nervous and I felt it rise more, my head feeling as if it was
pressed in from all sides. I began to
hyperventilate. I thought I was about to
have a stroke. I began to pray,
Is not God my Father?
As my Father, will He forget me?
Yes, He is my Father.
No, He will
not forget me.
He brings the cooling
breeze to smooth my brow.
He comforts me
with His touch.
There is no one like Him
and no one that can touch me like He can.
Why will He not forget? Because
He loves me.
Me, lowly me, He loves
despite the small stature of my being.
Because He loves me I can feel His
caressing touch.
I can feel that
everything will be alright though the night cares frighten me
and open me up
to the wounds of this earth.
God gives
me comfort and love through the pain.
Just as He embraces me, I embrace Him and know that I am as safe
and
secure as a climbing child upon her father’s knee.
Knowing these things I WILL find
calm.
I
WILL find peace.
I WILL find
joy.
I WILL find Him holding me and
rocking me safely to sleep in the midst of my storms.
As I prayed, I began to calm down and feel God’s grace. As I felt His grace, I began to feel my blood
pressure go back down to normal. I
realized that with God I had gone sailing successfully through another of
life’s storms.
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