You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with glad cries of deliverance
As I read these lines of the Psalm, I immediately thought of swimming in the ocean as a child.
The water was a hiding place where I could become so absorbed swimming and playing in the waves that everything else around me slipped away. The ocean is a healing balm that soothes my soul, keeping me from trouble. The roar of waves both lull and challenge me in a rhythm of freedom—the heartbeat of the earth.
As God’s creation, the ocean is a place where I encounter the Spirit of God: an all encompassing joy and freedom, a heartbeat I can also call my own, a place to both rest and dance filled with both awesome power and deep healing peace.
Where do you encounter the Spirit of God? We all have hiding places, and we all have the potential to be safe places for others.
Those are places of freedom -- freedom from struggle, freedom to experience joy, freedom to cry out.
How might you become a safe place for others today? How might you preserve them from the trouble of the world around them?
--Jenny Whitcher
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