In particular,В I like to focus on the words вЂI am with youвЂ™.

Jesus then pours water of divine truth around me.

I pictureВ Jesus bringing a bucket.В Into this bucket, he placesВ my swinging pendulum of thoughts and feelings.

I recognise that I need help from outside of myself, that I canвЂ™t live this moment without some externalВ stable presence. I see the pendulum swinging and rocking back and forth.

I pictureВ my life being like a plumb bob on a stormy day.

When it begins to swing around I take these steps. When the inevitable winds and storms of life roll in and my mind starts dancing a вЂnonвЂ™ merry tune. The presence of the water acting on the surface of the bob creates resistance to movement. The water stops the plumb bob swinging around. You stick the plumb bob into a bucket of water. So how do we keep a plumb bob still on a windy day? Then when the gust of breeze stops, the plumb bob swings back the other way. The wind moves over it and pushes the string line away from vertical, from being centred. They stay straight and true, but when any wind comes along, that thin string and the weight on the end can act like a sail. Plumb bobs work really well when there is no wind. That string line would just float around with any little breeze. Imagine a feather being placed at the bottom of the string. The weight at the bottom had to be heavy enough to hold the string taut. The force of gravity acting on the weight would create a vertical taut string line from which they could measure their wall against.

This is a heavy weight tied to a piece of string. Recently I was speaking on a podcast and suggested that itвЂ™s like a pendulum swinging back and forth, but actually, I think I can refine this down to an even better picture.Д«ack in the old days, and still today, when builders wanted to check to see whether the wall they were building was vertical they would hang from the top of the wall a plumb bob. It swings into depression, anxiety and then back into depression. There are times that my thoughts and feelings seem to swing like monkeys in a tree.

Plumb bob weight