A silent and invisible storm is on the way and all you want
t do is hide out in bed. Stop! I believe that at our best we live our life
one moment at a time, one day at a time.
It is a 12 step principle but I also believe it is a Godly practice as
well. I believe that God wants us to be
present in our lives and not be worrying about tomorrow or what it may
bring. Whenever I am stuck in the midst
of a difficult time or a difficult storm I find that it’s easy to start
worrying about the ‘what if’s’…I worry and worry about things yet to come. Then I remember my Dad’s advice, “Don’t try
to figure everything out and don’t just sit and give up. Get up, go to work and
do the next ‘right’ thing.” It’s this
advice that has carried me through many a tough times.
I don’t believe that any of us will ever be immune from
difficulty. I am also one of those
people that get a gut feeling when a big change is coming. It’s happened to me a few times; I will be
overtaken by a deep, gut feeling that a major change is coming. I have learned to share it with my husband
because it’s a heads up for him as well.
I have yet to be wrong when that feeling overcomes me. My natural inclination would be to stick my
head in the sand and pretend that I never felt it and all is well. I now have chosen to handle the gut feeling
differently because I believe my gut is the Holy Spirit giving me a heads up.
So I share my feeling, pray and wait.
If you are waiting on this invisible storm, I know it can be
scary. I know for me, that I feel a change
in my spirit. I can only liken it to
being able to feel the change of pressure in the atmosphere when a storm is
moving in. You feel the pressure in your
sinuses and know by the feel of the air that something is coming. That is how my gut feels to me. I feel it and then just wait for it to hit,
not knowing the day or time it will hit.
What I have found is that in this waiting I go back to my Dad’s advice
and do the next right thing. I don’t sit
and wait, I move, I pray and wait.
We aren’t meant to live on the sidelines of life. We aren’t meant to be observers, but instead
be participants. If you feel a storm in
your life is there or on the way and all you want to do is crawl in bed and
pull the covers over your head, I challenge you to take the Dad test. Get up, pray for strength and peace to get
through it and then do the next right thing.
Clean your house, do your laundry, go to work, eat out with friends –
keep moving and do the next right thing.
It’s in the next right thing that I have found God’s peace and strength
to face whatever storm is on the way.
Xo Melissa
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