I Will Rest in You

Change comes. The earth spins, light turns to dark and back to light again.  The earth tilts, summer sun fades into fall, whips into winter and melts into spring.  The days and seasons and years pass and our bodies grow and regenerate and then fade.

Life is not a straight road, but a wandering path.  There are gentle curves and rolling hills, but there are also sharp turns and mountains and valleys.  I don't think a sheer cliff would scare me as much as a looming hill.  A cliff is abrupt and forces you to figure out what the heck you are going to do about it right now.  Climbing a hill, is about anticipation, both thrilling and scary.  Feeling the gentle tug in my calf muscles, I know that eventually the steep climb will level off and reveal an awesome landscape spread before me.  I know that change is coming.  But all that time to ponder the unknown, mull over the possibilities, wonder which of the permutations (or maybe none of them at all) will unfold before me.

I've had this song on repeat the last three days.  Change is coming, but the only message that floods back to me, that is on repeat in my mind, is the one line on repeat in this song.  I feel like God is taking my face firmly in his hands, staring deep into my eyes and while my body shakes He just keeps repeating the only truth I need to know right now.  That line, over and over, will eventually cut through the human mess I make and fill me with the peace I need to climb without worry.

I will rest in you.
I will rest in you.
I will rest in you.