Good morning from Miami, Florida. We made it in one piece, though not without a lot of frantic running through the Newark airport. Today was supposed to be our down day where we could catch up with office work, but that wasn’t to be. We’ve got an early shoot to make this morning, so yet again I’m running on five hours of sleep. So this will be brief and I beg your forgiveness for typos.
Iris in bloom at Glen Eyrie – Colorado Springs, CO
Today’s verse is Psalm 46:10.
“Be still, and know that I am God!
I will be honored by every nation.
I will be honored throughout the world.”
This is a good verse for me to remember this week as I scramble to make flights and keep appointments. Some days you just need to be still.
Being still is a lot different than doing nothing. It’s way more difficult.
Being still is a choice we make in a frantic situation to wait and to trust that God will work it out. And while we’re waiting, we have to believe. Which means no anxiety. No panic attacks. No fussing and fretting. No wringing hands.
Stillness.
I struggle with this one because I’m a control freak. But if we know that God is God and we believe He will do as He says, we need to trust that He will. And that means giving Him our burdens and our problems and our troubles and stepping back. And not taking them back again.
Today is a good example. My stomach is in knots because I’m walking unprepared into an interview. I hate being unprepared. I study every contractor I interview so I know what questions to ask, but I have no idea what I’m walking into this morning. If it were a fault of my own, I could blame myself. But this job cropped up out of nowhere. I know nothing about it. I know nothing about the piping systems. All I know is that the VP who we’re talking to is one of the “most important” ones in the area.
So, I have to prepare what I can prepare and leave the rest to God, which means not worrying about it.
So that’s what I’m working on this morning. Being still. It’s harder than it sounds.
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