Confident!

 "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." (Psalm 46)


I'm living in a continually vulnerable state (estate).  I tremble that it is so.
My nervous system is awake now.  Alert.
To be so aware of vulnerability highly arouses my bodily senses.

Vulnerability and Longing,
Trembling translucent garments
flowing off my shoulders,
silhouetted against a twilight sky.

Oh, how to live, to dwell like this ...in the gale.

Recalling, remembering
Whose I am
Who regards me as His own child, daughter.

I'm living in a physical world between
the now
and
not yet.

By remembering God my Father
and
Christ my Lord, my Brother,
by
doing this together, one
brave
          step
                  one confident
stride
         in front of
                         the other,
                                        risking

This exposure to life's elements that hail and rain
around and
upon me.

Calling life's biggest bluffs - recalling
there's a grace and a longing that
endures to the end
with hope,

and a permanence that's firm like an oak and hard like crystal and diamonds

Transcending.


"Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way."  (Psalm 46)