There have been times in all our lives where we have felt that a situation was overtaking us and that fighting to love ourselves was not enough.  The weight we thought was too much to bear.  Little did we know that mustard seed faith could carry us far. We eventually realize during the storm of of life we were not alone.  Everything that we need can be provided to overcome.  Family, friends, children, strangers, situations, occurrences, or whatever you call it are placed in our lives for a reason and our Lord and Saviour saved us from self-destruction in what we viewed as impossible situations.

OVERCOMING SELF

I was mangled beyond recognition from within.

I had allowed life’s twists and turns to overcome me.

Everything about me had changed, so I thought.

My demeanor was of a dark hue.

My spirit was casted in bolder glue.

My body was living, but lifeless.

I had thoughts that dissipated before the quick blink of an opened eye.

I visualized my tears of emotion, but no moisture was in my sockets.

I screamed from my soul to free the pain from the walls compressing me from all sides like the pressing of discarded waste in a trash compactor.

As I gasped for my life again the pain that propelled me to this point stood up to take my life again.

But this time I was not alone. As I gasped for life, a “New Life” was filling me, freeing me, lifting me.

My last gasp took “that life” and the “New Life” stood up in me.

A peaceful serene that no man can know in “that life” has taken over me.

by: Deb’orah Momon