When you've had it, God gives you rest

When you don't know what to do w/ yourself and you've cried all your tears out, God can give you rest. This happened to me last night. About 9pm last night, everything in my life that's negative hit me and I felt so hopeless and lost. I know we all feel like this at some point in our lives, if not several times a month. There is a great spiritual warfare going on around us, that most people don't want to talk about and I guess that's for another blog someday. I know this was going on last night and I felt it. I cried out to God till I couldn't cry anymore and asked for peace, well He helped me sleep from 10pm till 9am this morning. The most perfect sleep in a while. I needed it, my soul, body, mind and heart needed pure rest and that's what I got! Even though we all have our own struggles, temptations, heart aches and pains, God can give you rest if anything. He can give you a lot more but for me, I specifically needed to sleep. Today I feel brighter and more focused on what I need to do, I feel that God helped me out a lot last night. He heard my cries, He tended my heart and gave me peace. He can do the same for you, you just have to ask and talk to Him!

Melodies and Harmonies

As I sit silently, alone, listening to beauty I contemplate the simplicities of life. Melodies and Harmonies move me in ways that nothing else can, except God. When I hear the calming presence of wind blowing through my surroundings, I like to think that God is whispering to me softly and gently. When I hear the waves crashing onto the shore I can't help but to be in awe of our King, the one who made all things, the one who is bigger than all of our worries and our anxieties. When I hear soft piano and the singing violin, I'm brought back to a place of sweet surrender, a place of peace. He is the One that brings me to a place of deep insight, a place where I can once again bask in the reality of how life should be lived. He brings me back to serenity, a place where I can only look up to Him. Why is it that we tend to leap out of faith so easily? Why do we easily forget that Christ is in control and is the Lord of the Universe? All things are possible in Him, all melodies and harmonies that we hear all through out the day are from Him. He made us, He made to world, the universe, isn't that enough? In those melodies and harmonies He is whispering sweet love notes in our ears. We must listen, we must take it in, cherishing each note. We are to listen intently as He is leading us in ways we never imagined. We are His children, He is leading us with melodies and harmonies, drawing us nearer and helping us to see His greatness and power.