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I love this Psalm -- one of my favorites. It's so short, so easily memorized, and it's an absolute picture of what our relationship with God can be. There is SO much going on in the world around us, and then there's twice as much going on in our minds as we try and take it all in -- it's so very hard to contemplate the speed at which the world moves, and even if we're not trying to keep up, it's exhausting simply trying to find a way not to fall too far behind.
And in the midst of the chaos, God whispers to the depths of your soul that you are loved, accepted, and covered in grace, and that all will be well, not because of you, but because of God and who God is and what God has done. God is enough, and in God, all of our needs are met, and one of our greatest needs is to learn how to rest in God, to simply be. This is a big part of what we lost when we stopped honoring the Sabbath -- the Sabbath teaches us that the world doesn't depend on us, that it's okay to stop and rest because God is in control, not us. When we stopped resting, we lost track of the peace of God, of the ability to lean into God, like a weaned child with its mother.
I'll never stop finding it beautiful, the way our children lean into their mother and rest in her.
May we find that same peace with God.
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