The sands shift, the waters ebb and flow and the world spins and changes with every tick of the clock, down to the millisecond.

We get sure footing only to look down and see once again the sands have shifted.  It’s unnerving, disconcerting and if allowed can keep us in a constant state of heightened anxiety, or at the very least subliminal distress.

We desperately seek a reprieve from the calamities that bombard our senses and our sensitivities.  It’s hard to imagine becoming tough enough to take it all in and not let it unravel our peace, but maybe that’s the problem.

We are allowing our gateways (mind, will and emotions) to embrace the roughness of the world without.

We can choose to step away from the bombardment of thoughts and ensuing feelings by limiting our exposure to that which we have absolutely NO CONTROL over. We need to know what is going on in the world but we don’t need to inhale it non-stop.

We can lean into that which we DO have control over-  our thoughts, our actions, our choices.  We can easily go adrift onto the sea of turmoil when we DON’T take charge of our time and for that matter feelings.

How many books, teachings, articles have been published to help us redirect?  Hundreds upon thousands.

I know I’m preaching to the choir today.  I have an extensive library.  I love books.  I love the covers, the insights and promises boldly proclaimed on the cover, but ask me how many I have read cover to cover. Very few of them. And yet there may be a chapter, a visual a one-sentence reminder that will help me breathe deeply and step over the stumbling stone in front of me that day. It is reassuring to know that, like myself  the many teachers, encouragers and life coaches are on the train of learning, growing and becoming with the heartfelt desire and intention of helping others.  Life is tough, we need the helpers, encouragers, inspirationalists, artists, teachers and preachers who diligently help us travel on our path.

Today though, I knew the book that would touch my heart.  Putting all other books aside a I went to my ‘Life Manual’ – the best book ever, God’s Living Word. The Good Book.

Insights that I knew would fill my heart, ease my mind and clear away the leftover tangled cobweb of yesterday and the potential forebodings of today are a paper-thin page flip away.  It never disappoints.  Never.

And the promise I gleaned for today?  One simply powerful word ‘forevermore’.

It began as I sat with my pen and journal and that beautiful word  ‘forevermore’ floated in.   I chose to dig into the promise behind that Spirit-inspired insight.   And here’s one of the beautiful, unending promises straight from the throne-room of heaven.

Psalms 16:11  

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.    NKJV

 

When the unsettledness of the day rise upon you, find those moments that you can be still and embrace the beauty of God’s Presence.  It’s there for you to access even amidst the knot in your stomach, the unending regurgitations of the daily news or everyday life circumstances that require your work-through.    Let it be your rudder and rear guard.  Even now as I write this I feel God’s grace-filled Presence embodying this moment of time.  It is before I launch into the activities of the day, and for me it is comforting and steadying.

Listening and enjoying God’s Presence — the One Who holds all Power and Promise is joyful amidst the turmoil.  Contentment comes.

Today’s Code Word?    FOREVERMORE.

May this bless and encourage you today.

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