Hi friends. There is so much I could share about the past few months, and perhaps one day I will tell you about some of the events that have happened. But for now, I want to share about today.
Today, I was on a train. You may not know this about me, but I don’t always feel great when traveling. Thankfully I don’t get motion sickness like some people do, but I often feel a little queasy with various forms of travel. Looking out a front window helps in the car, but on a train the side windows are the only option. Side windows aren’t always helpful because if there are trees or buildings flying by just the other side of the glass, it can make me feel even worse than the movement by itself.
Why am I telling you this? Because I found a way to cope with the zooming trees today, and it made me think (as most things do) about life. I realized whenever trees or other objects were close enough to zoom by the windows, I only had to look up, above the blurred objects to the sky – where it was calm.
I’ll come back to that in a minute (though I’m guessing you’ve made the connection by now anyway), but now I want to share my word and scripture for this year with you. The word is “moments,” and it is my reminder to live in the now, to recognize the moment that is happening right this minute. My tendency is to cling to the things that were and try to figure out the future all at the same time. This year, it’s time to practice being present now and being aware of what God is doing and saying in the moments I live each day.
The scripture that goes along with that is Proverbs 31:25. “She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.” That is the woman I want to be. I laugh a lot, but in recent times, it hasn’t always been without fear of the future. It seems like the harder I tried to figure out where life was taking me over the last year, the more distorted and confusing it got.
So today, as I sat on the train looking toward the sky, Psalm 121:1 came to mind. “I lift up my eyes… where does my help come from?” When life is flying by, whirling around at a pace that leaves me dazed and feeling ill, I need only look for God in the moment that’s happening right now. He is above all the craziness that is rushing past, and He is constant and unmoving no matter what the moments I’m living bring along.
If life feels out of control, feel free to join me in looking up, above all the chaos, to the “Rock that is higher than I” (Psalm 61:2).
