EYES ABOVE THE WAVES!

And I will call upon Your name; keep my eyes above the waves and when oceans rise, my soul will rest in Your embrace for I am Yours and You are mine.

DEPRESSION, DESPAIR, BROKENNESS

Keep my eyes above the waves

TO THE BROKENHEARTED…

I’m 16 years old, sitting in the dark, on my dirty clothes hamper, singing this song I wrote, to my hairbrush. My heart is broken, I have no reason to live. All alone, despair chokes the air I breathe.

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Keep my eyes above the waves

WHY DO I FEEL SO SAFE?

Lord, some days I’m exhausted with the weight of having to have all the right answers; the weight of worry for loved ones to move in the right direction; the weight of anxiety to make the right choices for myself.

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Keep my eyes above the waves

WHERE WERE YOU, CHRISTMAS? WHY COULDN’T I FIND YOU?

Can’t breathe from all the busyness; Exhausted to the point of being numb; Sad from memories gone by; Strangled, I allowed my “stuff” to block your peace. This was a hard Christmas. Too busy to take time with you. I just put you on speed dial and ran along my merry way – only until I couldn’t run anymore.

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WHY DOES IT HURT TO BECOME A PEARL?

I remember I said to a friend many years back, “You are going through a fire now, but you will come out like a shining pearl.” I didn’t realize how symbolic that expression was until I found out that a pearl is formed when an irritant, something uncomfortable works its way into an oyster.
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