Our Only Source of Strength

As I walked outside this morning I thought: ‘The world seem so peace-filled and good.  It is hard to believe that there is such chaos moving across the earth.’

And then the thought: ‘Life is not always as it appears to be.’

This feeling of peace reminds me it is good to remember, in the midst of all that's challenging — and sometimes awful, God gives us moments like this one.

And I began to think about how it was during my separation, and divorce, after twenty-four years of marriage.  It was a most tumultuous, most painfully awful, time in my life.  I felt like a 1000 piece puzzle that had been thrown on the cement and not one piece fit together.

And yet, in the midst of it all, there was this never failing place of grace and peace that continually engulfed me.

It is quiet comforting to have such, hindsight, reminders in our day-to-day life.

  

Most especially in times like this, when the pandemic still silently moves across our country, our world. 

And then the not so silent political storm raging so loudly; and unkind.

With unprovable fraud lurking in the mix of deceitful,  infectiously damaging  outcomes, makes us all unable to believe much of anything.

Though it all, there is this extraordinary promise to hold onto:

 “…remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Mt. 28:29)

“…..pray always and do not lose heart.” (Lk. 18:1) 

  

You see, I believe that all we ever need to do, in any mess — large or small, is to keep our focus on the one main thing.  

The main thing is our trust and faith in an amazing God. 

A God who, though invisible, is an extremely awesome presence in the doings of His human creature.

So as we are willing to find peace in the quietness of our own tiny worlds; let us leave the rest to God.

Our only sources of strength and protection.