Snow. For the last two weeks we’ve had a seemingly endless supply of it! It’s beautiful, lending an almost ethereal quality to everything it covers. There’s a peace I experience as I look out my window and see the valley below snuggled in the white blanket of nature.
But then I look out the other window and see Rusty in an uphill battle to stay ahead of clearing out snow from our half-mile long driveway so we don’t become marooned with no way out! What brings my mind peace and calm in the very same moment brings fear and urgency to my husband.
The Christmas season can be very much the same way…a time intended to celebrate the birth of our savior and an opportunity to spend quality time with those we love can also be a time of stress, loneliness and overload as we try to keep up with the demands of the holidays. Sometimes we forget to breathe.
Life is full of circumstances that demand our attention and proactive action. However, it is so easy to get caught up in our worries and the demands of life we often times forget to stop and remember that our Father-in-heaven has us and He wants us to be confident in his presence and provision in our lives.
King David composed a Psalm that helps bring my perspective back around from the worries the world throws at me and back onto our creator and His love that knows no boundaries or limits…it reminds me to stop and breathe.
In Psalms 139:7-10 he writes, “Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.”
Author Ann Voskamp in her book The Greatest Gift says
“When I feel worry today, this season, I will simply exhale. Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don’t believe that God will get it right. And Peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God’s provision is everywhere-like air.”
Jordan
One Comment
Ray Maxwell
Jordan,
I so very much appreciated your devotional; it captured where I am much of the time in this season.
I am trying each day to take time to “exhale” in His peace.
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