My Child,
Do you know how I watch over you both day and night? I see you when you get up in the morning, brushing the residue of sleep and lost dreams from your eyes. I cry with you when you relive the probing hands and abusive fists as you walk thru the house to just try. Live. Another day. I feel your heart racing as you walk past the kitchen table over-laden with too many bills and not enough bread, milk and eggs.
My beloved son, I watched over you carefully as you counted out your dollars- $10 for your wife, $5 for each of the kids and lint in your pocket for yourself along with $1.75 in the couch for your vending machine lunch. I heard you whisper to me “Lord, is today my brighter day!”.
Beautiful daughter, I remember, right along with you, how hard it was for him to love you when he laid you down and how easy it was to hate you and his own baby when he got up. I know exactly how it feels to have someone you love so much turn away and betray your heart, willingly, with forethought and malice. “Father, why am I so alone?”. Yes I hear you. Yes I’m with you. You are not alone.
The burden of your heaviness is mine to share when you go to a job where you are only an employee number. (But remember, I know you and the number your hairs.) I see you working to fill the days with more than despair and a raided pension fund. You’re trying to get ahead of the curve, yet you find out it’s not a curve but a vicious circle to keep you going round and round, down and around back to the beginning of nowhere.
Yes child I see you.
I look in amazement while you wear a smile on your face and clothe your heart with the garments of lamentation and fear and rejection and unfulfilled purpose and just plain sadness. Somehow you manage to give a word of kindness to someone else even when the flood threatens to overtake you. So proud of you child!
Oh darling child, but I feel your pain.
As you go down the avenue in your car/train/bus/own two feet toward your street, I already feel your anxiety as you wonder, “Is this the day they turn my home to a bank foreclosed house?”. So much for you to carry, but you are never alone.
Beloved, do you realize just how much I love you? I am here. I acknowledge you. I love you with a love everlasting. I know you have been through a lot. I know you have experienced heartache and pain. Let me love you to life. I am love. I will turn your weeping night into joyous morning. I can tell your storms, “Peace, be still.” I will rebuke your enemies with a Word and comfort you with Words of Psalms.
Believe My Words. Cast all your cares on me. I will handle them. But you have to Trust me. I know trust is not your thing. Many (wo)men have said that as a lie in your ear. But hear Me as I say this as Truth in your heart: I am not a man that I will lie to you. I am He whose Word never returns without action. I will love you and nothing will ever separate you from My love.
Be still and know I am He that loves you, heals you, delivers you and restores you. I’m not far away, in a distant place where you have to go meet me there. I am meeting you. Here. Now. In the place where you need Me most.
I’m in You.
Because you are in Me.
Reach out to Me just a little bit. Give me your hurts and agony. You take one tiny step, and I will do the rest. I’ll give you rest. My burden is easy, My yoke is light. Trust Me with it all. I love you. Trust Me with them all. I love you. Trust Me with your all. Trust Me.
With an everlasting and eternal Love,
Jesus Christ
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