EYE OF THE STORM (Father Manny)

EYE OF THE STORM - Part I
(c)2004 Stephanie Durand

I wrote this one when my life was perfect! Little did I know, just a couple of years later, i would face the worst "hurricane" of my life...the "worst storm" I ever went through. I did have to do much of what this poem talked about and it amazes me reading it now...but i must say...there is not one person that does not go through some test, some trial, some tribulation, and it is definately not easy to still believe that God is in control when we have so many questions about "why" something happens to us...BUT...we CANNOT lose hope, our faith, or our trust in HIM, we must stand still "in our faith" even if the ground is shaking below us! We must hold on! We must have patience, which is so hard sometimes, but it is the only way, and we have to pray, pray, pray, and continue to pray, and don't give up!-------------------------

In the eye of my storm in my life
The winds were picking up speed
It was a category five.

My world was spinning around and around and around
Then the eye of the storm came...
and I sat down in the silence and cried
Where should I run?
Where should I hide?
In this storm of my life

The winds were howling around me
I did not know where to run
I did not know where to hide
Then I looked up
The Lord had heard my cry!

"You have to leave everything behind
and run to me," he said
So, I blew everything I had to the wind
I reached out to my savior
I reached out to him

I crawled through the wind
I could hardly see
The debris was ALL around me

He said, "Push it to the side
and come to me"
"Come to me," he said

The rubble was so high
"It's like climbing a mountain to you," I cried
"I'm rumbling through the debris of my life,
A hurricane surrounds me and I do not know if I am strong
enough to survive."

My life was not forecasted to be like this
I was living in a hurricane, a category five
The winds were picking up speed around me
The dust was a whirlwind around me
and I could hardly breathe

Then the Lord reached down
and he breathed life back into me
and he said,
"Lay low, and crawl to me"

A hurricane surrounded me
It was not forecasted to hit yet
But here I am
Sitting in the rubble of my debris
He said, in the eye of the storm,
"Crawl to me, Let the wind take it all!"

So I started crawling
through the debris of my life,
I crawled, I crawled
It was so high
Then...in the darkness, I saw a Light

He said,
"Come, to me,
Crawl through the rubble!"

And through the rubble
I could see the LIGHT ...
I crawled FASTER!
He said,
"That's right, my child, keep coming forth to me,
I will SAVE YOU! I will set you free"

I continued to pray and crawl through the rubble,
I crawled through the rubble, and in the light,
he reached out to me,
Out I came and
He breathed life back into me!

I let the wind take it all! and I went to Him!
My Savior!
and His word set me free, His promise of holding on to me,
comforted me when it was too dark to see,
His light guided my path through the darkness,
a darkness that I never thought I would see.

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Looking back, this storm that blindsided me
taught me so much about life and raging seas
He IS the rock that rises in the stormy seas,
He IS the calm in every storm,
He IS our light
He LONGS to be our savior if we trust in thee.

Amen
when we cannot see