The melody of restful hearts

From the turbulent bowels of darkest deep, our roiling souls cry to you, oh God!

Close not your ears to the sound of our afflictions!

Draw us to the Still Point of love’s tranquil refrain, to the melody of restful hearts:

“Be still and know, still and know, know that I am God.”

In our watching and waiting, on the boundary of bedlam and the squalling, the brawling, the frivolous noise, shield us from the Confusor’s snare.

Remind us again that Heaven’s Provision will yet outlast earth’s squalid distress.

Oh, people of mercy, of promise and pardon, lean into the One who alone shall abide.

“Be still and know, still and know, know that I am God.”

©Ken Sehested @ prayerandpolitiks.org. Inspired by Psalm 46 and Psalm 130.