The Hand Behind the Horizon

There are moments when light does not arrive—
it unveils.
As if the sky itself inhales,
and suddenly the world I thought I knew
is edged with brilliance—
tree branches traced in liquid gold,
ordinary walls carrying a quiet glow
like embers remembering fire.
In that strange, holy illumination,
I feel Your promise move toward me—
not in words,
but in a certainty that hums beneath the ribs:
nothing cradled by Your hand
can be stolen by the storm.

Fear loses its architecture then.
The scaffolding collapses.
Its shadows shrink back
as if they’ve forgotten how to shape themselves.
I see my life like a paper boat
set loose on a restless sea—
small, shivering at the edges—
yet the waters curve to Your unseen command.
Waves rise, but break softly;
winds howl, but lose their teeth.
Your strength becomes the quiet, cosmic gravity
holding every trembling atom in place—
the hidden geometry beneath my days,
the force that lifts me again
when life cuts like broken glass.

So let that brilliance find me often—
the kind that does not crash in like thunder,
but settles with the weight of truth
pressed gently into clay.
Teach me to rest inside the shelter
of the Hand that flung Orion into the night
yet curls tenderly around my fragile hours.
Your right hand—ancient with victory—
wraps itself around battles I cannot name,
and peace returns like a tide
that never forgets its shoreline.

Hold me there—
in the glow where fear dissolves
into thin, drifting vapor,
where courage grows quietly
like roots drinking deep in hidden places,
and where my soul remembers—
with wonder, with relief—
it has never drifted alone
upon this wild, tilting world.
It has always been,
and will always be,
safely kept.

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