Stop and be still...

I cannot believe that we are half way through March already. Life has been so busy lately. I have not had the time to write or blog. I have tried to remain faithful to my morning quiet time but I have to be honest... it has been quick and short.

Isn't that the scheme of the enemy. Get us so busy that everything else seems to take priority. That the intentional time of just sitting at His feet gets pushed to the side. I have been studying for my Bible studies and reading a really good book at a painfully slow pace but none of that can take the place of simply being still and listening.

So today, I am curled in My Chair. Soaking in His goodness. Listening to His voice. Reading His word and writing the thoughts in my heart. I have been so distracted lately that I did not even realize the longing in my very soul for uninterrupted communion...

I think that sometimes we are so caught up in the craziness and the busyness and the needs and the wants that we forget that the longing that we feel is not for sleep or for rest but for Him. To sit in His presence. That is where we find the rest we seek. The answers we need. The time management we lack. It is there that we are filled to overflowing. It is there that we are blessed and loved and found. It is in the being still that we realize that we know.

There are so many big things coming around the corner for our family. Every one of us has big decisions to make. Big opportunities to pray about. Lots of things to sort out. We each need to discern between the good and His best. All together it can be overwhelming. But as I sit here this morning my perspective is coming back. The stillness is calming my soul. The closeness is so sweet and so real.

So today, sweet friends, stop and be still. His love never fails. He never gives up. He never lets go. No matter how much we spin ourselves out of control and into the crazies, we cannot escape His grasp.

Rest in that truth today. It is in the being still that we realize that we know the One who can give us immeasurably more than we could ever ask or even imagine...

"Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name. 

Look to the Lord and His strength, 

seek His face always." 

psalm 105: 1,4.