“You stayed with me.
You stayed with me.”
I turn this truth over quietly,
letting it calm me,
like a cool, smooth
worry stone in my hand.
You stayed with me
when the person I needed most
turned away, walked away, left.
You stayed.
Every time.
You stayed.
This reality, a gift
you spoke into my heart’s darkness,
grows more solid—
becoming an intimate stone of comfort—
as I touch and turn it over
again and again.
I hold it gently
until it takes hold of me,
and forms new circuits
on which to send
the healing Light of your Presence
into crevices of untouched pain.
You stayed.
You stay.
You are the One
who always stays with me.
——
God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
Hebrews 13:5
From Heaven at my Door by Juanita Ryan
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