IN HIS ARMS
- Jeralyn Smiley
- Jun 6, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 6, 2024
In this world it seems we skip from one trouble to another. We trip, we fall, we somehow get up once more only to fall again and have yet to rise once more. It can be so tiresome and there are times we no longer wish to get up at all. To try or even breathe is hard enough all on it’s own. Yet deep within me I feel it, something I can not quite grasp or put into words, but I feel it nonetheless and it is real. This causes me to take in a deep, deep breath and gathering strength I rise once more. After I have risen, I take another breath and start out. One step, yep I’m still here. Everything is okay, not perfect but okay. Then I take another step, and then I feel it yet again, and continue. With each step I feel more and more okay again. I feel more and more me again and I begin to think that things will be okay after all.
Lying in bed after awaking in the morning, before I get up for the day I linger for a while. In those lingering moments my husband will turn over and put his arms around me and just lay there holding me and we will linger through these first few moments of our day together, in silence as no words are needed. Safe in his arms all warm and feeling such blessed comfort, makes me think of Daddy and His love for us both. Oh how He loves us!!!! The dangers lurking in the shadows, having nets ready to capture us or ropes laid across our paths to trip us as we go by, all of the attacks upon our minds, and deeper still-our hearts, none of that matters laying in his arms. Then a sweet whisper, (or a noisy interruption of an alarm sounding) breaks this tender moment and we both know it is time to get up. As I go throughout my day when troubles come (as always will in this world) I go back to those first moments and then think of my Daddy holding me and helping me through it, no matter what it is- and I can so clearly hear Him saying- It will be okay, it will be okay, it will be okay. And resting in Him, I know that it will be.
Rest in Him today, He is there and it will be okay, with Jesus it will always be okay.
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