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Calmer Waters - A Poem

It's been a long time since I've done this, but I was inspired this morning after a conversation with a friend:

Calmer Waters

I watched as they got caught up in the current

Their bright colors swirling and spinning in the fluxes and flows

Their dance only disrupted amongst the rocks and white caps

Some choosing rougher waters, some forced

Some choosing calmer tributaries, others by chance

Some became stuck in rougher waters –

tangled among fallen debris,

snagged on rocks,

stuck in the muck,

color fading and

dissolving among the dark depths

Some would break free

changed by entanglements

altered and scarred

… stronger from the experience

Some would pass by these obstacles –

unscathed,

undamaged,

… unchanged

Continuing their journey downstream to calmer waters

I watched as one of them, a radiant bright green

Became trapped upon a rock

I spoke to my creator

“If it breaks free -

I know I’ll be ok.”

I watched as the bright green was beat against that rock

Unable to move

Hammered and disabled

I knew its fate –

its color would fade

till it was lost to the depths below

… Forgotten

I turned to go and out of the corner of my eye caught the color shift

that radiant green started to move

It slowly became unenslaved from its prison

Mostly intact but bouncing among the white caps

Jostled among the waves

joy in its dance

beauty in its strength

before floating down to calmer waters.

“Float down to calmer waters,”

whispered My Creator.

I've recently caught myself seeking out waterfalls as a destination to hike to. Apparently, waterfalls symbolize the process of letting go and a cleansing of self. In the Bible they are used as the pouring out of God's grace, and since Psalms was mostly written by David, I like to think it can be a pouring out of God's favor.

"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us..." (Hebrews 12:1 NIV)

"Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me." (Psalms 42:7 NIV)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sarah Portner-Shillingburg

Sarah is a single mom of three active boys. She grew up in the hills of West Virginia, and loves to spend her time outside exploring God's creation with her boys.