Waking Up Me!

As I was looking through my documents today, I found this letter I wrote to God last year. So much of it (other than the anxiety) is still true for me. May 26, 2010 Dear God, Today my heart is full to overflowing. Not with the things that bring me joy, but with the things that weigh me down. I need YOU, Lord. I need your hand in my life. I need your arms wrapped around me. I need to know that you are here with me. I need to hear your whisper and know you have not left or forsaken me. I know you are everywhere and in all things, Lord, but what I ask is that you reveal your spirit to me, IN ME, so that I stop feeling alone. I want to feel the fire of your spirit burning within me. My anxieties are welled up within me. I feel the pressure of them in my heart, my head and in my body to the point where I feel like I will implode or explode physically if they are not contained. I try to walk them out, run them out, swim them out, think them out, pray them out; yet, they remain. My ears fee...