Running

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Running, running scared. Running from the fear of circumstances, from people who hurt me and the ones I love. Running from God. Running from the things that He wants to show me about the depths of my heart, about the pain of this world. He didn't run. He embraced. He took it all upon Himself; the hurt, the pain, the fear, the words that hurt, hurt Him, the things that make our hearts race, as panic sets in and old wounds that are once again wrenched open, He takes the wounds and binds them with the reality that is Him, all Him. Why do I still run? Like a frightened child with dress up clothes on instead of a royal gown, I run away from Him instead of to Him. The one that has clothed me, and calls me beloved, it is Him that i run from. I end up running towards more danger than I can ever imagine.
Help me to run to You, where I can sit in your lap and call you Abba Father.