The “You” Nobody Knows: Lost, Scared, Alone Forever?

“Grow up,” they told you– and so you did.

You grew and you grew until

one day you were paying your own bills and

doing your own laundry and

making your own way.

You grew and you grew

and you grew

but still you had the strange sensation that

you were still a child

living in a grown person’s body–

lost,

scared,

alone,

pretending to have it all together

all of the time.

* * *

Until one day–

“Child,”

comes a voice,

“You were never meant to navigate

this ocean-of-a-world on your own.”

And the moment you hear it

in your ears and in your heart

you know that it is true.

And slowly, peacefully

comes the sense you’re being rocked

softly, tenderly,

in the arms of one who cares.

You close your eyes

and finally,

there is rest.

Finally,

you are known.

You are safe.

You are loved.

Finally.

It’s this moment that you’ve been missing for an eternity

and yet have never been missing at all.

* * *

“Child,”

says the voice,

“When was the last time you allowed me to hold you?”

For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you. Isaiah 41:13