Anchor For My Soul

Josh Garrels builds this song around a single, sturdy image: love as an anchor that holds a soul steady when everything else gives way. The opening lines admit a hard-won certainty — enough has been seen and lived to know that nothing else will hold — and then turn that certainty into a plea not to be let go, because without that grip the singer imagines being swept off by the storm. From there the song widens into a confession of who rules the weather. The Lord of the wind and the waves is addressed directly, and the fear that would normally accompany a squall is answered by the promise of his presence. The middle verse retells a moment of near-despair: a cry for rescue, and then a figure appearing on the turbulent sea, calling the frightened child to follow. The chorus returns twice, and the closing alleluias stretch out in a simple, repeating line that keeps going — and on, and on — as if the song itself refuses to stop trusting. The whole piece moves between honest desperation and calm assurance, never pretending the storm isn't real.