"Walls..........................."

In looking up a foreign word referred to in a book I’m reading, it seems that, even though it can be equated with “actual”, the Germans, themselves, have a hard time explaining its use in linguistics. That leaves me with the author’s definition of “eigentlich”, one which stirred my thoughts enough to search a little deeper. The term means (or so he says) “a unique quality of one’s essential being, what you cannot escape from about yourself, what you hold on to despite everything, what doesn’t fall away through whatever storms you pass in life.” That seems to be cramming a whole lot into ten letters; but, then, it would only take me three to capture it all as well. Within the same story, one of the characters confides in another concerning his only fear being of “falling into that final darkness all alone” and his one need being what he calls a “witness”, someone there spiritually, if not physically, someone who, out of their own mutual understanding, can reach out to him and say “I know”. Surely, in our journey here, we all can identify with that confession. Loneliness is more than simply finding yourself without tangible companionship. Humanity, however, can only meet us in such space as we presently occupy. A friend can walk with you only as far as the grave. God, however, “spans the gap”, linking the here and now with eternity and driving out all fear with the assurance of His presence. He knows us from the inside out; yet, in spite of all, is willing to be an anchor for our soul if we are but honest in the relationship and surrendered to His tug on the anchor-line. Grace: not just a Biblical term, but a tangible Reality within me. In Him there is rest……