As we are walking through our lives together, there are times where quietness is predominant. We read of the the idea the we should “be still and know that I am God.” That is a reassuring thing.
Quietness is not always a calming agent. When God chooses to be quiet, we assume the worst. Our questions, we figure, must have immediate answers. Otherwise the plans that we have been working on will dissolve and dissipate (in other words, things will fall apart).
Of course, the plans we hope to accomplish may be our own scheming. They may also be God’s plans in God’s timing for God’s purpose. We are just trying to fill in the blanks where God has left them ambiguous for the moment.
I’m not sure which side I’m falling on this morning. Calm and reassured, or anxious and uptight. We are seeking a house in which to live. Options continue to arise (for which we are thankful). Options have also fallen away (for which we are also thankful). God has reassured us that He is God and we are not – housing will happen. In the quietness, though, I just wish I could hear the scrawling of a pen filling in the occupancy date!