Hear, you deaf,
And look, you blind,
That you may see.
-Isaiah 42:18

Worry: the act of focusing so much on what might not happen that we block out what is happening. Through fear and mistrust we lose our today to a hazily disastrous someday. That wrong, sick feeling we get when we try to take it all on ourselves. That blindness to what’s beneath that comes when all we can do is try and decipher the horizon. The deafness that muffles the ears that strive to hear the eternal. I don’t like this suppression, this blankets-over-pebbles feel, this pushing-down-warm dough sensation. Life is freer when you give it up, turn it over.

Oh, what joys we often forfeit, Oh, what needless pain we bear…
But not just because we won’t pray. Heck, we pray our hearts out. Because we won’t release.

Daisy, give yourself away,
look up at the rain,
A beautiful display
of power and surrender,
giving us today
And she gives herself away.