Love is never far from Danger

This is a quote from a comment on Lifestream.org’s  blog page. It really helped me through a struggle I was in with trusting God.
I have experienced a lot of sudden and tragic deaths in my life. Right now, my men, my three living sons and my husband are off galavanting around the Rocky Mountains. I am home alone working and hanging out with friends. The first night they were gone I found myself gripped with fear. And it started with a thought. The thought was, if they have an accident a rock slide or a car wreck or…my mind when a million different ways all bad all ending in death or injury. I would be left all alone permanently. My next thought was I would die. I would die. And by this point, I am not physically feeling well. Imagine that. And the fear in my mind was suffocating me. I went for a walk I pulled weeds I tried to read. Found myself reading a post on my friend Wayne Jacobsen’s blog. This is the quote:

Comment by kent | 2010/07/31 at 14:13:02
With each and every passing day I come to embrace this reality more and more…that LOVE IS NEVER FAR FROM DANGER. And it seems that the deeper Father’s love goes in us, the deeper the bruising also. And that the limp we are left with can serve a wonderful purpose. It really is a paradox. If we respond to Father’s work in us during these painful times, we seem to always come out the other side more healed and whole than we were before the painful season came upon us. Even when a bit of the resulting pain remains. It’s a mystery.

That statement, Love is never far from danger, was straight from the Father. All of a sudden my imaginations that were horrible were still horrible but now God was in the picture. Where before He was absent, now I could see a rock slide and my loved ones were not alone, the Trinity was there in the picture. And if something happened to me while they were gone He was with me and they would be comforted by Him. We would live. I would live. All of sudden, like it was a surprise, I found myself trusting God with our lives. I really did. Trust. He is healing my distrust from the sudden and tragic losses of my past. I am amazed and I find it quite miraculous and mysterious. A bit of the resulting pain remains but its lost its power of gripping me in fear and directing my reactions out of the fear. Relaxing into trust is spine tingling. Bottom line is Love is a mystery and is never far from Danger. Lovely, beautiful, wonderful mystery. Let it be. Let it be. “Do not be afraid “is impossible in my human strength, but with God more than possible. Its a reality that blesses my socks off.
Joni Menard

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