24/03/2023
RAMADAN MUBARAK 🌟
When anxiety makes it hard to breathe, when the voices in my mind get the best of me. When my regrets from the past take me back in time, when memories of heartbreak awaken in my mind.
When everything hurts, when everything feels broken and nothing works. When my faith feels like a candle facing a tornado wind, when the devil keeps taking wins. When darkness envelops my heart and makes me blind, when the peace I am searching for I just can't find.
When I have nothing to give, when I begin to lose the will to live.
When I do not feel worthy of calling Your Name, when I am drowning in an ocean of shame, like sunshine in the rain, that is when You came.
You arrived in my life and everything changed. Your love is greater than the storms that I face. You had never left, but my eyes were closed. Now with every breath, I feel a river of hope. Your love is moving within me, but You are not contained by me. I am an echo that follows the words of Your plan. This Universe cannot reflect You the way the mirror of our hearts can.
We are chosen to represent Your love on Earth. Your spirit makes us into gardens from dead dirt. This breath that gives me life came from You and yet forms cannot capture Your Truth. Only the blind would say you are far too infinite to feel intimate, Your light pierced the soil of my skin and reached into it, deep within me into the seeds of peace that You planted.
Peace comes from You, it must be granted. Lord, please grant it. Allow us to not forget that Your light never sets.
Lord,
help me to let go of everything in my life that does not help me grow. Lord, help me see that no matter what I want, You are the only One I need. Lord, help me remove every idol in the way that prevents me from witnessing Your Face.
In Your infinite names, I pray, I pray, I pray!
📖 words by .helwa_ from her book From Darkness into Light