Frightful Things and All Their Cousins

 

...and those who love His name

   shall dwell in it.

               Psalm 69. 36

(We all struggle with something,

    both real and imagined,

    irrational and overwhelming.

God never ignores a cry of

                   "Help me!"

He always hears us,

        but are we listening?

I asked the LORD to help me

   by taking away

        what was troubling me.

Over the course of days,

I walked and talked with Him

             through it.

He answered me unexpectedly,

       as He most often does,

"What are you dwelling on?

 Why are you dwelling on it?"

So many frightful things

       --with all their cousins--

    come knocking on our doors.

But we need not invite them in.

         Dwell with Me.)

O LORD,

Grant us the courage

     to dwell with You

  in this broken world.

Settle in, abide,

make our hearts

   Your permanent address.

Empower us to say to our fears,

   "No vacancy."

Dwell with us, Almighty One.

Fill every room.