'remember when...?'

for when you forget, that it never used to be this way.

Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit; says the LORD of hosts. Zechariah 4:6-9

It’s so hard to keep our chins up sometimes, life comes crashing down and we try our best to keep our heads afloat above the waves.

So much so we forget what land feels like, what this otherness of being and existence outside of the many wiles looks like.

How we once walked on dried land, it’s so easy to go memory blank of the goodness and gratitude that once surrounded you when all you think about is what’s going wrong. What’s crashing out as cymbals collide across the room, and all that surrounds you is blinding white noise.

In these instances, it doesn’t often feel wise to pause and, breath or remind yourself that it never used to be this way and therefore it has the capacity to change.

it feels almost second nature to try and fix, patching the holes that are leaking through. Working yourself into oblivion.

I wish I could learn to remember:

that it won’t always be like this,

That at some point the children of Israel did cross to the other side of the sea, that their never ending track across a miles long space of land had an end and an ‘other side’

that his presence in these waters I cross is a guarantee that they will never overwhelm me.

Learning steadily but learning nonetheless. 

- with all the love in my heart

tshego♡