Be Not Far from Me

by Mindy McGinnis

She said she always wanted a girl, but what she got was me.

Be not far from me,’” I say. “‘For trouble is near and there is no one to help.’”

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.’”

But you, LORD, be not far from me. You are my strength; come quickly to help me.’” The sooner the better.

At Camp Little Fish they liked to tell us that when God closes a door, a window is opened. That never meant much to me in a house where the door always fell off the hinges anyway and most of the windows were stuck shut, but I see things differently now.

So I wait, ready to hear the sound of that window screeching open.

I hike up my pack and square my shoulders. And I go back into the woods.