Coping

 When frustrated with toxic people, remember that they are here for contrast. The light of Christ will shine brightest in darkness.

Psalm 27 Leaving the Flock ©2024 John Bursell

My body curled

Oh this world

It messes me up

Drink from the cup

“The Lord is my light and my salvation;

Whom shall I fear?

The Lord is the strength of my life;

Of whom shall I be afraid?”

I will never mock

I am leaving the flock

I was just another sheep

I need to wake the ones asleep

As I sink

I do not think

That I am the Shepard

Like the sleeping, I am scared

With them I share

A worldly nightmare

For them I shudder

As I reach into the gutter

“When the wicked,

Even mine enemies and my foes

Came upon me to eat up my flesh,

They stumbled and fell.”

In the church I long to be

Out in the world I am not free

In my Lord I have hope and grace

I need to free others from this dark place

It appears as if I walk alone

All the demonic cut me to the bone

I have left the 99 on the hill

The Great Commission I must fulfill