This week I’ve been thinking about deepness.
Specifically the other night. I was at a Young Adults event and we were all attempting to paint/draw pictures we’d gotten from a time of worship and prayer.
I ended up with a jellyfish on my paper. I was NOT about to try paint with my good jeans on, so I stuck to colored pencils.
I was pondering as I coloured, why a jellyfish? What came to mind was the song Sinking Deep by Aodhan King. There wasn’t anything specific about the song that stood out, just the idea of sinking deep.
Later, as I was praying with someone, I had this picture of two different bodies of water. One was a rushing river absolutely RACING down the riverbed, moving so fast along the surface.
The other was a well. A stagnant pool of water, unassuming from the surface, not moving like the river, but there were depths and depths to go down from there. And it wasn’t something that could be seen from the surface. To the untrained eye, you might think that the river was doing better, because it was going in a direction, following a path.
But the well was doing well too. It was just…different.
This sort of stood out to me as a call to sink deep, not just rush along at a surface level, constantly moving from one thing to the next to the next to the next. There are depths to faith that we cannot find if we are always trying to reach the next “step” in our walk with the Lord.
This can be frustrating sometimes. I find that I usually want to move forward. I want to accomplish. But sinking deeper into one place isn’t the same as staying stagnant. And there should still be steps forward. But they don’t have to be fast. They can be slow. They can be deep. Like steps in mud where you sort of sink more with every step forward.
There might be times when a crazy-rushing-river kind of step is taken, where it feels like there is 8 feet of growth and suddenly you’re sort of stretched. But there is peace in growing deeper in baby steps.
Not sure if that all made sense, but that was what was on my mind this week!
