Escaping from Quicksand
As I try to reflect on my life in the last month or two, the image I heard from a friend a few weeks ago seems very appropriate: sometimes we walk on hard ground and sometimes the good looking path suddenly becomes quicksand. I feel like I’ve been stuck in quicksand.
The thing that I understand about quicksand is that the harder you wiggle and try to get free the more stuck you become. I have heard that this isn’t true, but it certainly fits me lately. One can’t will oneself out of being bound by stress/depression. It takes letting go of control, letting go of the idea that you can handle it, and it takes learning to trust.
I’m still wiggling and struggling with some issues that are over 25 years old in my life and they will not release me willingly. Yet, that does not mean I cannot live free from them.
Ive named my heart’s desire as living God’s abundant life that is promised in John 10:10. It is my desire, but it is more importantly God’s promise. The quicksand will not win no matter how many times I get sucked into it.
It takes learning to trust.
Again.
And again.
And again…
