"Pain"
The Pain is like The Gentlest ocean waves lapping my grey shores
I feel like a seacoast being eroded by the sea
Precious land so precious to lose to the waves, then
meanwhile the same waves that take away, are building me up
pulling and coming up to kiss me like a flower to the sun
the waves lap my shores with a gentleness that soothes the pain.
I could be in this ocean surf forever and not want to venture beyond
something about the reliability of the tides and the caressing waves
coming into themselves and pulling out again, making me new!
At least I have found some Peace here, on these shores, with these waves,
I have a home here and Peace comes with the breathing in and out of the sea
inspiring me perpetually not to give up hope, never to give in to pain!
In JEsus' Name,
Amen