🌙 Psalm 4: You Enlarged Me in Distress

(retransmitted by Virgin Monk Boy after throwing his phone across the room and lighting a candle instead)

Psalms For The Unraveling

1
Answer me when I call
not because I deserve it
but because I am tired of pretending I don't need you

You held space for me
when the world shrank to a tight breath and a shallow heart
You enlarged me in my constriction
not by fixing it
but by sitting with me in the ache

Be gracious
not because you owe me
but because grace is what you are

2
How long will I keep handing my worth to strangers
measuring my soul by how well I perform in rooms that do not see me?

I chase shadows
then wonder why I feel unseen

3
But You have set me apart
not above
not beyond
just within

You know me
not as a file in a drawer
but as your own unfolding

When I remember that
I do not have to shout

4
I tremble
and do not run
I tremble
and stay

I offer silence instead of sacrifice
I let go instead of proving