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Being Grateful and Content
“Be still, and know that I am God; …”
B. Michelle writes:
I’m here alone with my thoughts. Some thoughts can cause me to lose sleep, but tonight, in the stillness, my thoughts have come to take me to a place called freedom. I hear God saying, “Be still and know that I am God.” Sometimes, past midnight, clarity comes.
My heart ached. The pain that makes me feel like giving up and giving in to doing things my way. I complain to God because I should have what I want. I can learn more about God and myself with surrender, trust and waiting.
I wondered silently, how does God do what God does? It’s love, unconditional, unrestrained, and unencumbered.
God listens to me complain about my life and what’s bad about it. My heart hurts from the pain of being let down again and again.
Somewhere in the midst of my let downs are the great and mighty arms of God opening up for me to crawl in and surrender. As I became quiet within, God spoke and I listened.
Somewhere in my life, I turned my happiness over to others. If they just did what I wanted, acted right, did right by me, etc., I would be happy. Maybe we weren’t born to be happy.
Maybe we were born to learn how to be content and how to be whole within our spirit and connection with God.
Just maybe we were born to learn that true love is when we accept what God allows, and be thankful for the closed doors and broken places.
God loves us no matter what. I let God down today, was selfish today and yet God still loves me. God still loves us because God’s love is deep, perfect and holy.
God’s love does not depend on what I will do or won’t do. God’s love oozes out without delay, denial and dependence on anything or anyone else.
While I was alone (not really) past midnight, it became clear that if I yet love like God, I will be authentic, happy, whole, blessed, free, and content.
Freedom comes when I forgive and release people into the hands and heart of God. Stop complaining and live with gratitude. Gratefulness opens life up to a profound level.
Trust God past midnight and with the dawn of each new day. Feel the love that is yours and live.
I am the mom of Olivia Corinne Hoff, who passed away April 22, 2004. Olivia was only 14 years old. She died of a heart condition we knew nothing about, LQTS Elongated QT Syndrome, known as the silent killer of young adults.
This is one of my all time favorite verses. This is one of those gems that sort of hopped into my lap when I opened up my Bible one day - and it spoke to me as if it was straight from the mouth of God.
I’d love to get a glimpse of your love life! I invite you to spend a few moments thinking about the questions below; and I invite you to share with me and the community your answers. I’m sure we’ll all be blessed by your thoughts and experiences.
I’m a criminal trial attorney in the inner city courts of Boston. Several months ago a court officer asked me what I was reading, and I showed him my Bible (I can’t remember which translation it was). He nodded and continued on his way. He wanted more information about Christianity, and I gave it to him, but he wanted to argue several points so I referred him to a few sources.