lessons

This is a lazy day.

It’s kind of nice that every once in awhile, something bigger than our schedules and urgencies decides to ground us all at home for the day, and there’s not much choice but to get cozy and settle in.

My mornings haven’t been terribly ambitious as of late, but today, I’m not going to even make an attempt to get moving. I’m happy just sitting on the couch, watching in wonder as the wind — that mysterious, invisible force — whips full-grown trees all around, and howls through their branches. It’s amazing.

I’m reminded today to rest, to cease from striving, and to remember that God is directing our steps. The wind today, although amazing, is also very dangerous — and yet, here I sit, in protection and stillness, simply observing. And I feel a call in my spirit to find the quiet place of His presence.

Keep me as the apple of Your eye; Hide me under the shadow of Your wings…

alive.

I know, I know. It’s been awhile.

I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth or forsaken all things internet-related. I’ve just been, well, out of it. Sick, tired, and just not myself.

But I’ll persevere, and in a month or so, I might just rediscover that I’m a morning person, that breakfast hasn’t always induced a nauseous reaction, and that I have a personality! I’m very much looking forward to all of that!

In the meantime, though, I’m taking it a day at a time, enjoying the moments of energy that I do have, and enjoying good books the rest of the moments.

And thinking about how intimately acquainted God is with my life, with our lives. How near He is to all who call. How much I love worship. How much of Him there is to learn. How far I have to come, and how patient and faithful He is along the way. How I’m in over my head, but that I always have been, and He’s always been my only hope. And has He ever failed me? No. Never.