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This is a busy season of my life. I keep hoping that things will return to "normal," and that what our family is going through right now is not the "new normal." It's so busy. I just want to stop and catch my breath.
A while back (I can't seem to find the post), another blogger left a comment regarding "stealing moments" with God. I've been trying to do more of that, because it's seems like moments are all I have with Him. I hate that. I want to be able to quiet my mind and heart and sit in His presence.
Sometimes that "sitting" happens in the bathroom, but only when Hubby is home so I can close the door and actually have a moment of privacy too. I have a devotional book in the bathroom called "Quiet Moments with God for Mothers." Each devotional barely takes two minutes to read.
I read recently about the value of silence. I appreciate silence, I really do! But it's a rare animal in these parts. Even now as I type, Hubby and Ladybug are in bed, but the dryer is running. So there is relative quiet, but not silence.
Silence makes a lot of people uncomfortable. In conversations. In church services. In life. We are so programmed to have noise, to have something happening around us all the time. But we need the silence. We need that uncomfortable feeling because that is when we realize that we are not whole. That we have a need in our lives for something greater than ourselves. We need God.
From my devotional book: "Sometimes the quiet does not offer itself; it must be sought out. At other times, the surroundings don't allow for true silence. It is in those moments when the Holy Spirit can supernaturally turn down the volume and allow moments of quiet communion with God from within."
I know that in these busy days, I need to seek those quiet times. I need to ask the Holy Spirit to turn down the volume and the chaos around me so that I can steal those moments with God.
This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “Only in returning to me and resting in me will you be saved. In quietness and confidence is your strength." Isaiah 30:15 NLT
I alway feel guilty for not having more time to spend with God. I need to start seeking out those moments.
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