Good evening, dear friends, and unknown readers....
You are safe here. I don't know who comes and goes with any regularity.
These last seven days have been most irregular. Would it surprise you if I said I haven't been to the grocery store in 9 days? I am not the one buying toilet paper. I am not the one buying bread. I am not afraid of not having bread although I love it dearly. (I am the tiniest bit discouraged at the thought of no tea.)
I don't know what is going on out there. Is it a blockbuster movie come to life to change the course of our life? Is it the beginning of the Lord's return? Is it merely an illness and nothing else? Is the government actually turning itself upside down and inside out to the delight and full extent of every conspiracy theorist's thought?
I don't know.
I am not that deluded, nor am I that smart.
Friends. I don't NEED to know. I don't need to be smarter than the government. I don't need to be smarter than the CDC. I don't need to have watched every movie Steven Spielberg or Stephen King ever inspired.
I am a daughter of the only King. With that comes specific peace.
I don't want the government to turn upside down. I don't want martial law enforced or anything remotely close to that. I don't want to be without toilet paper (specifically two ply) or bread or cereal. (I'm a hungry type person.) I don't want a zombie to bite my head off or a mist to overtake me whereupon I find myself in the mouth of a 7 headed monster with eighteen rows of teeth. I also don't want to not be able to go to church or the library or Chili's. Look. None of that sounds appealing to me.
But I do not fear it. I do not fear any of what is going on.
I've often wondered about the "peace that passes understanding" that is described and preached and others more devout and holy than myself, talk about. When will I have it? When does it apply? Will I recognize it? Is it a way of life rather than an abstract idea? I'm certainly not a candidate for this although Jesus says I am.
Guess what? Emotional Angela, the one they always worry about being stable and able to handle life, emotional Angela.... does not feel emotional. (Except the tiniest bit about the tea thing)
This is the peace that passes understanding.
It's here. And you can have it.
You don't have to delve into the drama and trauma. You don't have to worry and wonder.
You can fix your eyes on the perfecter of your faith and walk in peace.
No matter what happens, you can already know the end of the story. You can get to live in heaven with Jesus who has been building and planning for your arrival since before the foundation of the earth.
It's an interesting and strange time, it might get more interesting and strange, but you can know peace. Peace that passes understanding. That's the presence of Jesus. He probably isn't going to bring me any tea but He's taking me to heaven one day and He is along for this ride wherever it's going.
May He continue to give me the courage to sit on a hill and the grace to shine well.
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