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Safer on the Water
18-03-18
Though waves crash around me,
Tossing me until I tumble
Like a lost coin in a washing machine,
And winds whistle warnings deep into my soul,
Telling me of all the damage they have done and can do.
Though the waters rise,
To imprison me within their walls
And crash over me,
Until I drown deep beneath their weighty clutches…
Though the waters are dangerous,
There is no place safer for me to be.
The boat is comfortable,
Seemingly safe and secure,
I know it and it is familiar to me.
I have been here before;
In this boat,
On these waters,
And it saved me from certain doom
But doomed me to an unfavourable fate:
In order to remain safe,
In order to not be hurt by the world or those around me,
I have to stay within the walls
I've created by this boat of mine.
False security saturates me
Until I am safe,
Then continues to soak into me
Until I suffocate.
I may be in a boat on a stormy sea,
Seemingly safe and secure,
But I am alone.
There is nobody who can come to my rescue
When it springs a leak
And starts sinking beneath me.
Out on the water, He stands,
Waiting…
For me.
I may not be able to stay above the water I try walk upon,
But He is there to pull me above the waves
When I start sinking beneath them:
I am not alone when I am on the water.
The safest place for me during a storm,
Is not the comfortable boat I've built,
But out on the wild waves
With Him to hold me up.
18-03-18
Though waves crash around me,
Tossing me until I tumble
Like a lost coin in a washing machine,
And winds whistle warnings deep into my soul,
Telling me of all the damage they have done and can do.
Though the waters rise,
To imprison me within their walls
And crash over me,
Until I drown deep beneath their weighty clutches…
Though the waters are dangerous,
There is no place safer for me to be.
The boat is comfortable,
Seemingly safe and secure,
I know it and it is familiar to me.
I have been here before;
In this boat,
On these waters,
And it saved me from certain doom
But doomed me to an unfavourable fate:
In order to remain safe,
In order to not be hurt by the world or those around me,
I have to stay within the walls
I've created by this boat of mine.
False security saturates me
Until I am safe,
Then continues to soak into me
Until I suffocate.
I may be in a boat on a stormy sea,
Seemingly safe and secure,
But I am alone.
There is nobody who can come to my rescue
When it springs a leak
And starts sinking beneath me.
Out on the water, He stands,
Waiting…
For me.
I may not be able to stay above the water I try walk upon,
But He is there to pull me above the waves
When I start sinking beneath them:
I am not alone when I am on the water.
The safest place for me during a storm,
Is not the comfortable boat I've built,
But out on the wild waves
With Him to hold me up.
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So, at 17:30 GenevieveL messages me asking if I'm going to church tonight (service starts at 18:30)...she can give me a lift home...AND there are cheese toasties for FREE afterwards (if that changes my mind). I wasn't planning on going...after what happened last week I was feeling apprehensive. I was (and still am) also feeling wobbly, fragile and emotional. BUT Gen is like addictive kryptonite - I cannot refuse her anything and she can weaken my walls and barriers to the point where they might as well not exist - and so I went. Expecting it to be hard, I did that thing I do where I box my emotions and ability to feel them somewhere inside my head and then pretend that box doesn't exist, and so I survived the evening.
Moving along. The passage preached on was from Matthew, where Jesus walks on the water and invites Peter to do the same. I'm too lazy to get the reference for you - google it! Some good points came from it, namely (for me) that:
1) It's a personal thing.
Yes, Jesus came to save everyone...but I AM INCLUDED in that everyone. He came to save ME, to have a relationship with ME.
2) Peter needed to be invited to step out of the boat.
He wasn't just gonna push his way forward (like if you say 'you can pop around to my house anytime' but never invite me over I'm not gonna just randomly pop over).
3) The safest place for Peter was OUT ON THE WATER and not in the boat.
The boat was his comfort zone, but a comfortable place is not always a good place. Comfort leads to complacency and kills things (like dreams and potential).
On point 3, this poem popped out.
Moving along. The passage preached on was from Matthew, where Jesus walks on the water and invites Peter to do the same. I'm too lazy to get the reference for you - google it! Some good points came from it, namely (for me) that:
1) It's a personal thing.
Yes, Jesus came to save everyone...but I AM INCLUDED in that everyone. He came to save ME, to have a relationship with ME.2) Peter needed to be invited to step out of the boat.
He wasn't just gonna push his way forward (like if you say 'you can pop around to my house anytime' but never invite me over I'm not gonna just randomly pop over).3) The safest place for Peter was OUT ON THE WATER and not in the boat.
The boat was his comfort zone, but a comfortable place is not always a good place. Comfort leads to complacency and kills things (like dreams and potential).On point 3, this poem popped out.
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The way you explain it, it is almost like being there...