Your Mercy...

'Your mercy wakes me every morning...'

Each morning before eyes open, I feel mercy and grace flooding heart and soul.

Each morning comes with a decided lack of dread, of wondering where and how this day will go.

Each morning I rise with peace...

I rise knowing love, knowing compassion...deep down within confines of heart and soul,

fear has been purged.

Rousted out of dark corners, lurking in secret, waiting to spring up and seize throat and heart rate simultaneously.

Rousted, ousted...gone...

Each morning I sit, with cup of heaven in hand, thanking a God who never left me alone with a brute of heretofore unknown terrors.

Sat with me in that house...lay with me in that bed...protecting mind and heart from the worst of assaults...stood with me, crouched with me as I desperately set to protecting physical body from more harm.

Even as I cried out to God in horror, to save me...He stood alongside...bringing breath miraculously back to lungs starved by Dave's two hands round my neck...

Oh yes, I name him...no longer will I fear reprisal, no longer will I hold back naming a monster disguised in the flesh of that Fraser Lake man...why, you ask?

For the woman/en going through it right at this moment...living in that house of horrors, thinking themselves alone...

I wake each morning with thanks to God for one more day to love, to enfold, to shout thanks to the heavens for His protection...

'I will make peace your governor

and righteousness your ruler.

No longer will violence be heard in your land,

nor ruin or destruction within your borders,

but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

The sun will no more be your light by day,

nor will the brightness of the moon

shine on you,

for the Lord will be your everlasting light,

and your God will be your glory.

Your sun will never set again,

and your moon will wane no more;

the Lord will be your everlasting light,

and your days of sorrow will end.'

Isaiah 60:7-20

No longer will sorrow haunt my thoughts and cloud my mind...

No longer will fear halt my feet upon any path...no longer.

My friends, treasures all...stand tall and let shame drop behind you to lay in the dust of forgiveness and love...we are covered in grace, in mercy...with love all things are possible...

May your heart find its path, may your soul find peace even in the harshest of conditions, setting you free to live, truly live. In abundance of joy...in a surfeit of love that never fails, never fades.

God keep you this day and each day forward as you find your way...may His protection keep feet planted in high places, may His comfort cloak you in warmth and solidarity...

You are loved, as you are, each minute of every day....