Trembling in the Night

It is one of those nights again. I long so desperately for love and light and joy and peace. But instead I feel tormented by a mind like a restless sea. The choppy waves tossing up silt and sand. I close my eyes only wishing to forget and sleep, but my dreams haunt me and I wake with a start. And I tremble in my bed. There are so many things that I don't let enter my mind in the daytime for I know what they will do to my heart, but they come in my dreams, and I can't stop them. Tears shed, wars raged, loves lost, my life slipping away. Such are my dreams, and I can't make them go away. There is only One who is able to calm these waters of my heart; only One who can make them calm and smooth as glass. So I cry out. And I lean into His arms--He smooths my tired brow and gives me the rest for which I long. And such sweet rest it is.