Aug 6th, 2022: Be at Peace?

Different countries are ready for war with one another.

Peace is at risk, and we wonder.

What does it mean to have peace?

We don't know if our lives are in pieces.

Serenity disappears as we face our inner turmoil.

Nothing good is growing in our hearts because it has no fertile soil.

We turn ourselves in with unpleasant thoughts.

The dryness of our soul has formed a spiritual bridge that we don't know how to cross.

When we look down, it is too scary to see.

When we look up, we have a longing; just to be.

We stop, sit, and learn to be still in the middle of the night.

Asking where God is, we would love to see His sight.

Nothing we can do on to take away our hopelessness.

We learn how to believe that God loves to restore us to our best.

Surrendering ourselves is unpleasant.

It demands our heartfelt repentance.

We then might see the first sign of hope.

We can rest and trust that the night will pass and we don't have to walk a tightrope.

Deuteronomy 32: 10

"“He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye."

Psalm 63: 1

"O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;

    my soul thirsts for you;

my flesh faints for you,

    as in a dry and weary land where there is no water."