William Bode

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 a silent tsunami crashing the shore without warning. Psalms 34:18 (NLT) The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed. ______________________________________________ There is a heaviness. It fills the breast and presses in like a weight. It takes your breath away but sometimes slowly crushing and other times coming like a silent tsunami crashing the shore without warning. While trying to shift it you feel guilt for a thing you can not put your finger on and everything you've ever done wrong. The burden of failures not your own coupled with inadequacies long felt and denied rush in to fill the black hole that is sucking your life away. I pray. The weight does not shift. Fear invades. Cold analysis seems painful and facts unable to change the feeling. Keep telling myself the truth. What is physical? What is mental? What is from outside myself and what is from deep within? I am not a slave to this feeling. I will not be defeated by it; it wil