active, embodied accompaniment
What would it look like to let God fully accompany you in a place of real fear or pain? How might you make that invitation?
Psalm 33:20-21
Our soul waits for She who saves; She is our help and our shield. In Her is our heart glad, because we trust in Her holy Name.
There is a knowing in this kind of waiting.
This is not passive, but relational. In my deepest pain, when harm is not theoretical but real, I sometimes forget that God is not indifferent. She is a presence I know well. She is familiar. Intimately concerned. Tender with the intricacies of my experience.
Psalm 33 tells me she is my help and shield. This is not just in poetic language, but in active, embodied accompaniment. When I feel afraid, when I brace for what is to come, do I remember to call on Her? Or do I imagine I am too much, too complicated, too broken? This is an invitation into deeper intimacy with the One who entwines Herself with my heart. She is already there.
The question is: am I allowing Her to hold what I most fear?
What would it look like to let God fully accompany you in a place of real fear or pain? How might you make that invitation?
—Dax Franklin-Hicks