These truths are swirling through my brain today …
God is a God of love. He hangs the stars. Instructs the sun to rise. Always keeps His promises.
God is faithful.
When I allow these reminders to frame my day, life feels better. Hope returns. Worries can’t compete and they move out.
Do you know what I mean?
Perhaps your feelings about life and this new spring/summer season are similar to mine?
My heart and my muscles and my brain are ready for a pause. They need time to breathe. Rest.
They are starved for nourishment—needing to be fed healthy doses of moments that refresh and restore and revive.
My soul wants to remember God’s faithfulness. It needs to linger in truth.
So, in this season I’m intentionally looking for the good.
If I want to remember God’s faithfulness, I need to watch for it. Keep my eyes open to see it.
In other words, it’s best if I stop worrying about the what if’s and start seeing God in today.
Susie Larson describes it this way: I need to stop bracing for impact and start anticipating God’s goodness. (Susie Larson Live podcast; conversation with Melissa Coleman on April 26, 2022. Fabulous!)
Where I place my attention, where my thoughts linger? Those places frame my perspective and determine the course of my day.
This is a season of refreshing rain. Farmers are planting crops, awaiting new growth. Days are longer and the sun shines brighter. Windows are open and we can walk outside without our snow boots.
The birds chirp, mourning doves coo.
Lawn mowers buzz and sprinklers clip.
Bats swing and music plays outdoors.
Water splashes and unicorns float in the waves.
Let’s choose to live in the sunshine.
Read a good book. Take a walk. Nap.
See the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Notice His new mercies every morning.
Embrace His promises as our own.
Tish Harrison Warren has written a down-to-earth, beautiful, life-giving book that is my eye-opening companion as I learn to notice and celebrate and inhale new life this season. She writes this in “Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life:” *
God made this day. He wrote it and named it and has a purpose in it. Today, he is the maker and giver of all good things.
I want to learn as she did to live with my eyes open to God’s presence in this ordinary day.
Let this warm your heart like a sunbeam straight from the heavens:
The Eternal is my shepherd, He cares for me always. He provides me rest in rich, green fields beside streams of refreshing water. He soothes my fears; He makes me whole again, steering me off worn, hard paths to roads where truth and righteousness echo His name.
Psalm 23:1-3 THE VOICE
* This book is really good. (It was the Christianity Today Book of the Year.) The peanut butter and jelly sandwich on the cover is just so perfect!
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