Today I was imprisoned in the world of my small self,
a shrunken world confined to trivia,Thoughts of other people held in terms of ME;
only disappointment in everything I see.
Today I missed God’s glory
ablaze on sunlit trees
lost instead in self absorption
blind to all that’s free.
I dwelt within the small world forbidding love, refusing light,
Clutching pride, defending ME.
My world of self soon withers, growing cold in oblique night.
It cannot grow, exist without God’s sunshine bright.
God is Love; God is Light.
May I know the big world of God’s love and liberty
no more to dwell within the confines of my prison.
I cannot imprison God in that small world of just me.
“The Lord sets free the prisoners”. Psalm 146:7
a poem written by Sharon Danielson Gould in 1964 while in college.
About Me
- everydayessaysbysharon
- Houston, Texas, United States
- After a good year of my “blog avoidance” my persistently encouraging daughter finally won out! Here we go. “Once you choose hope anything’s possible” appeared in my email today. How timely.
Last year I wrote ½ of a book about my life called “Hand-full of Grace: Just Enough and Just in Time”. Yes. It still sits in a file. This year I realized that the discomfort in writing about me has transformed into writing about events of my life which have been miraculously covered by God’s grace and it is He whom I honor in recording it.
There is no better way to start than to start! It is my hope to offer encouragement to others in these Everyday Essays. I especially honor the years of friendships that have upheld me.
35 years as a clinical social worker and counselor, 9 years of widowhood after 29 years of a wonderful marriage, 36 years of motherhood, 7 years of grandmotherhood, 52 years as lover of my pets, 14 years as a breast cancer survivor currently in stage 4, 3 resurrections from death’s door experiences and about 56 years as a believer in Christ. I have walked both close and far from Him. I am convinced by far that close is best.
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