Today is August, 30, 2021.
After a tumultuous 2020, I still feel like I’m playing catch up. What about you? The first signs of fall sprinkle the front yard as leaves surrender willingly to the warm summer breeze, but I am not ready to surrender. The change of season feels too soon.
Somehow my feet are still planted firmly in last year’s climate report that read, Rough Times Ahead!…Uncertainty Sure to Follow! This is what my mind tells me as I struggle to deflect the endless tap, tap, tapping on the doors of my peace by the constant reminders that Covid has its own address, people are still struggling, and that proverbial needle in a haystack has hidden my old life in a pile of confusion. I kneel somewhere in the middle of all of the noise, plugging my ears, waiting.
Waiting for HIM to show up.
I pray for healing a lot these days. Healing for our cracked hearts that threaten to crumble if things don’t get better. I pray for the strength of our minds as the enemy of our souls continues to press his finger deeper into the wounds that have yet to scab over. I pray for our tired bodies, unknowingly running on empty as we try to navigate a new normal that shouldn’t be new or normal.
What happens when the world forgets who HE is because the picture perfect glass houses we’ve built in our minds shatter under the weight of reality? This reality. That we are not our own. That life, in fact, is a house of cards. That every step we take leaves a disappearing footprint. It almost makes me want to give the red pill back and choose the blue one instead.
Until I remember that HE is sovereign, and that despite what’s going on around us, HIS love is enough.
So as I work to dislodge my feet from the fallow ground of last year and turn my back against the harsh winds of sameness that threaten to keep me still, I remind myself that JESUS, the author and finisher of our faith is still hanging out on the right hand of our HEAVENLY FATHER and that HE’S got us.
Just as the seasons change, we were never meant to stay the same. Even if we don’t know what lies ahead, we have confidence in knowing there’s SOMEONE who does.
That’s good enough for me.
Written by : calandraclarkauthor
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