Sometimes you're floating
in a sea of temptations -
afraid, in the dark.
You grin and bear it.
And hold out against the storm.
By the thinnest threads.
And it ends.
And you're back.
---<--@
The Tempest
Just as every storm has a duration.
Every temptation has a limit.
A limit set by God, so as to challenge the soul,
and not to defeat it.
To reach this limit is the task of patience.
To fall short of this limit, more so.
Our spirit becomes stronger in its flight
- ever by the grace of our God -
when we, despite ourselves,
constantly reach out for the calm we know is out there,
beyond the tempest.
To endure the tempest constantly
is the domain of holy perseverance.
And holy perseverance brings us home to God.
- selah -
"Do not bring us to the test,
but deliver us from evil."
AMEN.
