*clunk*

*clunk*

The door shut behind me.

*tap* *tap* *tap*

As my feet lightly flew over the verandah.

*swoosh* *swoosh*

Through the lush green grass.

Where could I walk to? Just for a few minutes alone?

I found a river, quietly rushing down a gentle slope,  but there was just one problem. Between it and me was a big ledge.

Oh elusive quiet.

Where does one go to find the quiet? Where does one go to find peace?

"The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."
Zeph. 3:17.

I believe Jesus holds the key to our restoration and peace.

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Time. 

It is so easy to be caught up in the here and now, and what is happening at the moment. 

And so easy to forget what really matters. So easy not to see what's really happening before your eyes, or even it's significance. The growing, the breaking, the rebuilding. 

So even though I may be staring at deep hole wondering where my last few years have gone and wondering if there was any significance at all -because now it looks like a pile of swept up dust,

What I'm not really perceiving is that within this hole there are foundations slowly being built. There needs to be a hole because these foundations need to be deep enough to hold what is being built upon them. 

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Seek Me First

It might just be me, but, does God ever give you a phrase to write about and then wait until you listen for more information?

Let me give you an example.

Today I spy FMF's new word prompt  'FIRST'.

 "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well". Matt. 6:33.

"Hmm that's a good verse".

"Seek me first".

"Yup that's a great verse. I wonder what i should write about".

"Seek me first".

(It gets a bit repetitive at this point).

But I rush off to the doctors and worry about outcomes of the appointment. I rush to the pharmacy worrying whether they are closed yet.

It's only when I have slowed down waiting for dinner to be cooked that I start thinking about how to seek His kingdom first. Living out his reign and rule in my life. Through all my anxieties and all my fears and all my insecurities.

And thinking about living a Christocentric life and remembering him as my King and as King of everything. How nothing surprises Him.

I think I forgot who He was.

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

"Case in point".

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