10.5.23 - Psalm 72:3
In what ways is creation speaking to you today? How might you respond to its presence?
May the mountains yield prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness.
I tried for about six in a half years to get clean and sober. Repeated relapse led back to a familiar sense of desperation. All of it separated me from the world that I lived in and locked me into an internal world that was filled with turmoil.
Each time I emerged from that pain, one of the first realizations that the outside world existed was when I noticed the mountains around me again.
It was like Spirit was giving me a wave, reminding me that there was more with which I could connect. That wave always led me back to asking for help. One of those waves from the mountain has led me to a day-at-a-time sobriety for nearly nine years.
It wasn’t the mountains alone that broke through the fog of addiction, that required intense work with others. The mountains were the holders of something for me, though.
Creation is communicating with us in ways we can become attuned. There was a connection to the solid reliability of their presence that I could anchor myself to and begin to pull out of the cave of addiction.
In what ways is creation speaking to you today? How might you respond to its presence?
--Dax Franklin-Hicks