Grasp

Grasping at straws.  Don’t you sometimes feel like you are grasping at straws?

Grasping at straws… it is trying to find reasons to be hopeful about a bad situation… it is to make a desperate and almost certainly futile effort to save oneself.  This is grasping at straws defined.

I read that it comes from an analogy of someone floating… drowning… in a river… and reaching… with desperation for the reeds growing on the river bank.  Grasping for something… anything… to hold on to.

I look into my aging mother’s eyes.  I see her confusion flicker.  My father’s frustration.  I… grasp at straws… try to bless.  Grasping with desperation to save.  Them.  Me. 

Then the voice… a whisper

I have this

you don’t have to save them… or yourself…

I have already done that.  

Let the water… the water of life… let it carry all of you.

Stop grasping.

Let go.

Grasp for Him…

 

G o to Him for the saving

R emember that He has already finished the battle

A cknowledge that He has taken the straws and built a bridge right to Himself… for all of us

S top.  Listen.  He is whispering to you right now.

P raise Him that you are free… free to breathe.

 

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.