Laptime In A Troubled World

This morning, as soon as my mind woke up,
I pictured myself climbing up into God's lap, and
asking to be held. His arms reach around me,
embracing me wholly, covering my entire body.

I feel myself being accepted without question into
a safe place. I feel comforted.
I feel safe from anything and everything that’s
happening in the world.

I am immediately protected from
all my fears and worries. I am in
the safest place in the world. I relax and
feel the protection, the unconditional acceptance.
I go there to escape anything that
I am worried about.
I go there whenever I’m feeling
that the world is not a safe place.

I crawl into His lap like a small child gets
into the favorite family chair, oversized for the
child, sinking deeply into the soft cushion comfort.
I’m securely enclosed in pillowy comfort.

I feel like a little child.
I leave my adultness far behind somewhere, and
I have no expectations to figure anything out,
nothing I must solve, no problems to fix,
no important decisions to make.
I am comfortable and secure as I feel
the peace of being completely
protected and taken care of.

As God reassuringly embraces me,
He tells me to stay as long as I like,
and to come back anytime.

JamesPalmer
July 10, 1999