Atmospheric Pressure

Step out beyond the muck
Look up and out
Steady your legs
Plant a wide base
On the Rock
And stand

Even with the fears raging
The swirls of inferiority
Buffeting
The mind and soul
Back and forth
throwing you off-balance
igniting unsteadiness within
like a teetering dreidel
wobbling over the table's edge
plummeting
Down, Down...
Down
Where the heart is subjected
To crushing atmospheric pressure
life blood forced out
Oxygen compressed with suffocating effects
unable to find breath

The deep
Consumes in gulps and swallows
wave after wave of illumination
Vibrant colors
fade
into dull grey shades
Hues indistinguishable
from despair
Vacuum sucks up hope
dis-orienting
the mind and soul:
up is down
down is up

Yet

wait

Don't let darkness make it's home
In your heart

One flickering candle remains burning bright
A pocket of Fresh air is adjacent
Fragile Hope remains strong
For One is faithful

Look up and out
of the darkness
away from the
Oily blackness within
To the flame
that fights back the darkness
For His love is a bonfire
Burning for you

Let your weary heart rest
On the embers of true love
release your white-knuckled grasp
on the past failures and hefty shame
weighing you down
Do not let lingering insecurity
Hold you back

Step out beyond the muck
Look up and out
Steady your legs
Plant a wide base
On the Rock
And stand

Savor His presence
Stretch wide your arms
Toward the flame
Absorb the light of the Son's rays
To your core
Now surprisingly more solid
more substantial
Than before
Let the light and the love
Sink deep inside
To withstand

Even More

Atmospheric pressure