Letting Go So As Not To Be Let Go

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life… 
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor 
gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. 
Are you not of more value than they?  Consider the lilies 
of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin… 
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today 
and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more 
clothe you—you of little faith? …So do not worry about tomorrow, 
for tomorrow will bring worries of its own.”
Portions of Matthew 6

  LETTING GO SO AS TO NOT BE LET GO

All anxious moments, 
find their common source 
in one anticipated, flashpoint 
called…tomorrow. 

If we could know 
the shape of dim futures,
catch some fleeting hint of what 
is yet to be, 
there would be easing
  of the heart’s disquietude, 
and welcome relief from the minds 
maddening captivity 
to worst case scenarios.

“Don’t be anxious”, he told us, 
as fragrant flowers, 
captivated the senses, 
in hill-framed greening, 
and arcing birds, 
buoyed by secret currents, 
seemed eternally suspended 
in effortless easement.

Were there such caring at the core for us, 
we could live head-high 
in spite of squalls, 
but green hills fade, 
leaving starker scenes 
of cross-crowded Golgotha, 
and yet…
he trusted the tomorrows 
even here… 
for what faith finds in every anxious now 
is simplicity of presence, 
whispering, 
“I will not let you go.” 

Matthew 28:20.

Friends, God will never let you go…
for God loves you now… 
and forevermore…

Rev. Dr. David D. Young
Senior Minister