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To still a trembling heart?

Our hearts tend to tremble when fear arises.  Fears take so many forms – some from trauma, some from physical cues, some from imposed affliction, some from self inflicted explosions.

Be still.  Breathe.  Be mindful. 

All good advice.  But you need to add the shield.

Know that God is God.  Not just any god, or any invented perception of god.  Not just an idea but a God who is there, is not silent and enters into our world.

Find the God that is fearful.  In such a way that there is nothing that God cannot do.  Nothing that God does not know.  Nothing that God cannot fix.

Then fix yourself on that God.  Literally, be fixed by that God.

And your heart will beat in rhythm.

Everyone knows the word “crepuscular”.

NOT!

My wife ran across the word in one of her books she is reading.  Neither of us knew what it meant.  So we headed to the dictionary (meaning we looked the word up on Google).

The next day I was headed out to teach at a school just a short ways south of town.  The sun was rising.  As I drove, I was on the alert for crepuscular animals.  That includes deer and antelope (although they are more pronghorns than strictly antelopes around here – a story for another day).

Your turn to do a little search!!  Then try out the word on someone else – as soon as you can!

Around 80 years or so ago, my father and his brother hitchhiked, biked and rode train to Ontario.

The trip involved a failed border crossing into the United States, overnight stays with relatives and friends of family and friends. 

The impetus for the trip in 1937 was to obtain work – on a relative’s farm.  Their father’s farm (Kindersley, Saskatchewan) could not support both brothers in the midst of a depression peppered with no rain and little financial resources.

The adventure was a true adventure.  Their venture took them into trials and testings, but also fun and family connections.

This was a formative trip.  Throughout his life, my dad constantly had the view that “the best is yet to come.”

2021 – THE BEST IS YET TO COME

New Year used to be March 25th (based in a Western Christian culture).  A little interesting tidbit to start the day.

Of course, the tidbit needs to take into account other cultures who will celebrate new year at another time and in other places.

What a great privilege to be able to start a new year almost anytime of the year!!