A Moment to Rest...

I walked off the plane into a snow storm just two weeks ago and I loved it.  There is just something about the way a snow storm makes life stand still.  Schools are cancelled.  Plans are postponed.  Inches are counted and marvelled about.  The fireplace goes on, hot chocolate in hand and everyone snuggles into their snuggie for a nice Hallmark movie (ok, maybe that's just me...).  I love the winter, I love how it makes me sit and look at its beauty while I remain comfortable on the inside! 

It's just what I needed.  I needed a moment for life to stand still for me.  Time to stand still and reflect on all the good, rid out all the bad and just be.  It's kind of challenging in this culture, with my personality, during this season and while my family fights some hard times.  But the moments that I can slip away alone and savor silence gives me peace of mind and the strength to give something to others.  I've been reading Galatians and the ever popular verse, "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up" keeps coming to mind.  Weariness can definitely keep someone down, doubtful and or want to give up.  I felt myself getting weary during the daily grind of mission work by trying to accomplish much in my own strength and seeing that it doesn't look so graceful that way.  Matthew 11:28 also says for all the weary and burdened to come to Him and He will give rest.  So as I come home to rest, I find great peace at the foot of my fireplace, in the pages of the psalms and in the quiet moments that can never linger on long enough. 

Soon enough I'll be back in the home where quiet moments just don't come around as often but I will be ready and joyful to fully give.  John Homer Miller says, "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."  I will have to read this daily to remind myself that this is how I want to walk daily. 

Wishing you much rest, peace and joy....