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TITLE: Peace; be still | Previous Challenge Entry
By David Summers
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That is so easy for him to say. Sure I would like to be able to do that and maybe one day I will but not now. Definitely not now. Not when there is so much that needs to be done.
The bills are piling up, the debt on that credit card is growing beyond reproach, the kids need to go to the dentist, the car needs a tune up, my job performance is not up to my standards, need to go shopping because are in-laws are coming for dinner on Friday…I need to do my hair. Who has the time?
Gina was feeling the weight of the world on her shoulders all at once.
I wish Dan would do more to help me. Who am I trying to kid every time he tries to help I bite his head off for not doing it right. He works so hard at that thankless job yet I’ve never seen him stress out over oncoming waves of evident disaster.
He would probably say it has something to do with faith. We worship the same God so that can't be why.
Why should he have inner peace when my world is constant turbulence?
It is the difference between male and female, Mars and Venus. I’ve read that book. We are wired differently and that's all there is to it.
“Honey you need to calm down…let go and let God; remember.”
Oh, he has a lot of nerve talking to me like that. I know scripture just as well as he does. He is no holier than I.
Yet with that simple statement as (insensitive as Gina perceived it) struck a chord and brought conviction.
How does one let go and let God?
She forced herself into her prayer closet and sought the lord.
If I’m feeling crushed by every day life then obviously I’m not giving it to the lord. Lord please help me to do that.
The following day Gina found herself in the same frame of mind
The bills are piling up, the debt on that credit card is growing beyond reproach, the kids need to go to the dentist, the car needs a tune up, my job performance is not up to my standards, need to go shopping because are in-laws are coming for dinner on Friday, I think I need a manicure…I need to do my hair would a perm be too much? God help me, who has the time?
She beholds each problem as a storm cloud, with her world being rocked to and fro.
"Jesus help! Do you care that I drown?"
In her desperation a vision manifests.
“Peace; be still” is this not what Jesus said to the storm that his disciples felt threatened their very lives. She saw it vividly. The crashing waves, the storming clouds. How foolish his disciples were to be scared when they had Jesus on board with them.
Then came a revelation.
Do I not have Jesus with me now?
How insignificant and petty all these little trials I’m dealing with really are.
Gina began to laugh in-spite of herself. It was a heart felt laugh that can only come from a peace beyond are ability to understand. She stood still and knew that he was God.
Dan almost didn’t recognize his wife when he came home from work that evening. What he saw on her face was beauty beyond words. A quiet calmness that need not be articulated.
He recognized the joy of the lord immediately; as her joy became his and they shared it together in praise to their heavenly father whose yoke is easy and burden is light.
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