Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Be Still

YOU’RE LATE!
(Be calm)
DO THE DISHES! DO THE LAUNDRY! GET TO PRACTICE! DO YOUR HOMEWORK!
(Be still)
HURRY UP!!!
(Slow down)
I CAN’T DO THIS ALONE!!!!
(I am here)
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I can only speak for myself, but all too often, the overbearing, obnoxious screams of the “real world” are all I can hear.  There are places to go, people to see, jobs to do, mouths to feed…
Sometimes, we get so wrapped up in day to day living, we completely tune out the gentle whispers of God.  Instead of being calm, we become more rushed. Instead of asking for help, we pile the world on our shoulders and trudge on through. Have you ever seen a horse with blinders on it’s head? They are like two small shields on either side of the eyes to prevent the horse from seeing behind or to the sides.  Blinders keep the horse only focused on what is directly ahead of them.  Sometimes we feel like we are wearing blinders. We are so focused on working things out, accomplishing tasks, or living through a difficult moment that we forget to look at God, standing right beside us...ready to take some of that load off our shoulders. 

Ready to give us the rest we so badly need. 

...but if we don’t know He’s there, how can we allow Him to bear any of the load?

It’s hard. No one, not even God, ever said life would be easy. What God did say is that He will ALWAYS be here with us; that He is in control; that He only wants what is best for us.
I don’t like to wait...I don’t know many people that do. We want answers and we want them NOW. We want our houses cleaned, our children fed, our homework finished, or trials over, our sadness removed...and we want it on our time.
It doesn’t work that way. God has a plan. We need to trust. We need to listen; to ask for help. We need to talk to God.

Be still. 

No matter how much we want to control our lives, we can’t. Quiet yourself down, take a deep breath, and hand it over.

Because God is good. All the time.


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