Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Still

You are here. In my head I'm certain. But in my heart, I don't feel it, and I'm lonely for You. The stillness isn't cold nor angry, but it is profoundly silent.

It's like something has come down between You and I. Part of my heart aches to overcome it, another part weighs me down into a different kind of stillness-- stuck, like in mud, or maybe quicksand, sinking. My heart grows heavier and heavier.

I want to speak to You, but I cannot find the words. I want to hear You but You are silent, not even a still small voice, nary a whisper. I wait, but silence remains, and I'm not completely sure how I feel about that. Maybe silence would be better if not for the loneliness.
All things... that's what Your word says, so even the stillness and the silence must be good, or purposeful at least. I know You are good. I know Your plans are good.

You said, "Be still, and know." 

I'm not good at that. Always striving, always thinking, never still.

Is that why? Are you bringing me to stillness by consuming me with Your stillness and silence? Like a great ocean of nothingness, sinking, everything seems to drift farther and father away. There's nothing to grab hold of, not even You.

How far will I drift? How far will I sink until I finally find it? The stillness You've commanded.

When I finally get there, will You rescue me then?

I cannot know if or when or how...

All that I know, is...

YOU ARE GOD.

1 comment:

Jessica Renshaw said...

Diana,

I have so much respect for you, for your tenacity in the face of a still and unresponsive God. Please don't mind my comments that may come across as advice or criticism. I don't mean them that way.

Here's an article that really expanded my thinking enormously about the kinds of silence there are in our relationship with God --both silence coming from Him and our silence in relation to him, either to enhance our worship or to express our pain. http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1236152.ece It reviews a book called Silence in Christian History. Even if you never get the book, I think you'll get a lot out of the summary of it.