Take the Nap
Our bodies need rest. They need stillness, a time-out, rare moments of nothing.
Our bodies need rest. They need stillness, a time-out, rare moments of nothing.
Evil is all around us. Victims are sometimes right in our path. We’re just too busy, too distracted, or too self-involved to see it.
We are in a season of harvesting, but many of the “workers” are trying too hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.
I told a friend earlier that my goal was to travel into the new year with as little weight as possible.
No, I’m not talking about a diet resolution. I’m talking about the weight of this world that we often carry.
I don’t always know what is right, and I don’t always know what is wrong, but I do know I serve a God who knows all things.
Religion will make you say grace before a meal, but relationship will have you give away your last bit of food.
You cannot hold firm to one topic of this world and let that be your guiding force.
Thankfully we have a Heavenly Father who calls us by name. He beckons us to His lap, to weep as long as we need.
“Help me, God,” I had cried, and calling for His assistance came as naturally as if I had been doing it all along.
I sometimes feel like I fall short in raising her, but I also cannot imagine a better blessing in life.
The key to being part of the Christian clique was to say the right things.
God places us in situations so He can make us more like His Son.
And do you see what he says to the second son? “All you have is mine.”
It’s easier not to worry about the worst-case scenario when the child belongs to someone else, but when they’re your child, it changes everything.
We must take the role of servant and see to the hurting people around us, forgetting our own pain, and only seeing that of others.
I wanted God’s heart for me personally on this issue, and I prayed to Him for what I should say.
That being said, I found myself this morning wondering too much about what is true, and what is not.
My knight in shining pj’s, smirking like Steve Erwin on the trail of a crikey rattler.
Today as I talked to the Lord about what was rumbling around in my head lately, I felt the leading to read Ecclesiastes.
We’re in a time of our lives where we can bring church home. We can bring it into our hearts!
If you stood in my shoes you would hold a patient’s hand with your own gloved one, attempting to offer comfort, wiping away a stray tear, patting their arm compassionately.
You see, God isn’t hard to find. It’s just hard for us to do the locating. We’re too distracted by the world to realize that He is here with us all along.
If I were to offer any advice during this time of social distancing it would be this. Use this time to read the Bible. Y’all! There’s a wealth of truth and wisdom from the Lord inside those pages. Let them be a healing balm to your worried soul. Let them guide your decisions so that fear doesn’t lead you, but His peace sustains you.
Such love. That was what brought me to tears. Such peace at having my Heavenly Father direct my steps. That’s what had caused my emotional outpouring.