Are you sleeping ?- (Pondering Mark 4: 35-41)

As this storm

rages about me

I wonder

if you are asleep?

 

Do you sleep

as life's

waves crash

over my soul?

 

Do you sleep

as my heart

is overwhelmed

(again)?

 

Do you sleep?

 

Don't you

know that fears

beset me?

 

Should I have

faith to survive

this storm?

 

... I am

weak

and my faith fails

me….

 

... are you

waiting

 for me

to call

your name,

to ask for help?

 

Or will you rebuke me?

 

Sometimes I fear

I don't know you

at all ...

 

Are you sleeping?

 

 

 

 

 ¹ I lift up my eyes to the hills—
       where does my help come from?

 ² My help comes from the LORD,
       the Maker of heaven and earth.

 ³ He will not let your foot slip—
       he who watches over you will not slumber;

 ⁴ indeed, he who watches over Israel
       will neither slumber nor sleep.

 ⁵ The LORD watches over you—
       the LORD is your shade at your right hand;

 ⁶ the sun will not harm you by day,
       nor the moon by night.

 ⁷ The LORD will keep you from all harm—
       he will watch over your life;

 ⁸ the LORD will watch over your coming and going
       both now and forevermore.

(Psalm 121)