You know the feeling. Open up your inbox and it’s flooded with email chain letter prayers and photos that if you send to six people your prayers will be answered. I know it’s the new age of technology, but the way to talk to God and have Him move and work in my life is not through email chain letters. Sending it to six people isn’t going to change my situation if it isn’t God’s will for me.
Email chain letters may not work, but this does. Read it. Surrender. And be still. And you don’t have to send it to a single person. Just take it into your own heart.
This is the rest of the piece that I shared parts of with you yesterday that my friend gave me, (written on a real piece of paper that I could fold and put in my jacket pocket).
BE AT PEACE
Do not look forward in fear
to the changes in life;
rather look to them with full
hope as they arise, God,
whose very own you are,
will lead you safely through all things;
and when you cannot stand it,
God will carry you in His arms.
Do not fear what may or may not
happen tomorrow;
the same everlasting Father
who cares for you today will take
care of you then and everyday.
He will either shield you from suffering,
or will give you unfailing strength to bear it.
Be at peace and put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations.
St. Francis de Sales
I don’t know who St. Francis de Sales is or where my friend got this from. There was no other annotation on the page. All I know is that as soon as I “put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations”, things changed like the flip of a light switch. Total surrender gives God free reign to work in my life and do it His way. And I didn’t have to send it six other people for Him to do it, because God doesn’t bargain – He just simply works when I stand with my arms at my side and look up.
And so, as another day goes by, it’s still November , I still have to just listen, and….I have written.
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