Deep calls to deep...

This phrase keeps going through my mind. I have no idea why. So I looked it up and this is what I found:

Deep calls to deep
in the roar of your waterfalls
all your waves and breakers
have swept over me.

By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me --
a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 42:7,8

I love that. There are many things about this scripture that draw me in. I love waterfalls. I love being in their spray. I love watching them fall. I love to hear them roar. I love to stand behind and look through them. I love everything about waterfalls. There's something very powerful about falling water. A

nd I'm drawn into the whole idea that the Lord directs his love by day. I know when I see the sun rise the first thing that comes to mind is "Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love for I have put my trust in you." The sun coming up is a reminder to me that God loves me - day after day after day.

"At night his song is with me" - I have no idea what that means, but I want to know. I want to wake up with his song. I want to sleep with his song. I want learn his song and have it be my prayer to HIM who is the God of my life.

I do not want waves and breakers to sweep over me, especially not all of them. As much as I've grown, I still suffer from a fear of water. I don't mind it so much up to my neck, but over my head and I'm pretty much in a panic. I don't like that I can't breathe under water. I don't like that it's all right up next to my face and wanting in my ears and nose. And from the context of the Psalm this water sweeping over you refers to trouble. The psalmist is wondering where God is and then he remembers that God is in the day directing his love and singing in the night. So, although right now I'm not swept over by trouble and my life is really incredible, I want to constantly remember where God is in all this. Because someday the water may come and it may not be a lovely picturesque waterfall but waves of it breaking and sweeping over me and I do not for one minute want to forget where God is.

Now about deep calling to deep, well, I guess I'll just have to keep mulling that part over. There's some treasure there that I want to hunt down and uncover and cash in. Maybe my word for 2006 will be deep. We'll see. More on that later...