Sat upon the white sand

There are times in life when all is smooth, it’s like sitting on a beach where the sand is white and warm, the sea still, calm and beautifully blue, the sun shinning bright, glorious, peaceful. But the truth is the smooth moments are literally that. They are just moments. They come and go, the clouds take over and engulf it all…

Or is it more to do with how we look at our day, at our life, at our circumstances?

It is true.

Our days are filled with moments, some good, some bad, some are so amazingly good we want to bottle it up and never let that moment go. So why do we let it go?

Are the bad moments so hard, so battering and overwhelming that they steal the bottled up joy from our hands. Are we wearing blinkers that steel our gaze from the goodness in our day?

I’m not sure where I’m going with this. Maybe I’m questioning self!

Here’s the thing…

My life is filled with physical pain from the second I open my eyes until the moment I close them to sleep, so seeing the good can be a difficult thing. Especially on the days when it feels as though pain is rattling through my veins. But I choose to live in this prayer of ‘Lord my pain be your gain’.

And I do…

Most of the time, that is.

He has used my pain for His gain is such glorious ways, but I don’t want to be in pain.

I want to be on that smooth, picturesque beach with my toes in the sea, drinking sangria and eating ice cream.

My wants and His wants don’t always align, but I know at this moment He is with me and hears my cry.

On a beach I may not be, but when I lean back, lie in His embrace, I for a moment feel as though I’m lying upon that white sand, the sun warm and shining down. Peace fills me so deeply so that it simply overflows.

This is the peace that I have come to know

How do we live in such peace every day?

I don’t want it to be simply moments that come and go but a knowing that is so deep it simply doesn’t go.

Remember I am penned in love and so are you!