5th March 2023

Tearfund Lent Devotional Day 12

I see you

‘For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.’ (Isaiah 41:13, NIV)

I see you

I see you – there in the shattering you

looking for you; seeking your self

in the can't-cope of it;

the never-ending weary of it.

I see you – desperate for your soul

to be a more solid thing; to be found

amid the pantheon of the real.

I see you – wondering if God

is just the translucence of a dream.

I have been there in the lostness;

I have tangled with the shadows;

I will tell you – won't you know it? –

that something is reaching for your hand.

Gideon Heugh

Gideon writes for Tearfund and is a poet and environmentalist