So, youíve finally found yourself at the bottom of that deep, dark well of despair?
Itís nearly pitch black, and there is nothing left in you to fight any longer to save yourself?
No ability to swim and fight the undercurrent of pain and suffering?
Really?
Good.
You are now ready to be saved by Grace, through faith.
Faith has a unique property…designed for that very moment in your life when things could get no darker.
It glows.
You see, when you are busy doing things on your own, you are too distracted to notice that faint glow at this end of a delicate string that is called faith. That faint glow comes from the amazing brilliance shining down upon its far distant end…but when there is nothing else left, only then can you see it.
So look carefully around you now as you stop your thrashing about.
Find that gentle glow, and see the impossibly thin, fine, fragile thread of faith that has been left for your rescue… for just this very moment.
Grasp that glowing silken thread with all your heart and mind. Go ahead, grasp. It will never break, even though it is so impossibly gossamer thin.
Wrap it all around your fainting, shivering bodylike a softly glowing cocoon of warmth, safety, and love … and relax.
You do not pull yourself to the surface. Let yourself be pulled up from that bottomless pit of natural despair, up into the dazzling brilliance of Godís loving grasp, where things now clearly seen are forever real and not dark, false deceptions.
Set your bruised, bleeding foot upon that lovely, firm and healing verdant trail, and walk toward the nearby roaring, thrumming, indulgent, luxurious waterfall of grace.
Stand under its refreshing cool waters, and let the goodness of Christís sacrifice for you run over you wholly, wash you clean, lift you up…make you whole…bless you….prosper you in myriad ways, much like the endless fields of glorious flowers and savory fruit that arose from the sweet spray each side of that glorious waterfall of grace.
Now, just look around you, and find your amazing fine, delicate and glowing thread of faith.

Gordon Furr lives in Salisbury.