Upheld In Time Out

Don’t Mess With My Schedule

This seems to be the mantra for our society. We are so tightly programmed we can hardly move. There just is no wiggle room

Keeping our schedules is a mantra. We check our phones or appointment calendars before we can meet a friend. “Sync your watch” has become a haggling session over when we are free to get together.

Gloom or Quiet

If it were summer, I would say we are in the dog days. But it’s winter and we look out over a gloomy landscape.

Maybe it’s time for a mind change. Winter is muted. Colors are dark, gray or white. The weather is often damp or cold and icy.

If winter limits activities (in general: I am not talking to skiers and skateboarders!), then maybe this is a good time for quiet in otherwise very noisy lives.

Time to Contemplate

Perhaps just sitting, looking out over a landscape. Seeing a certain beauty in bare tree limbs or gray waters or the tip of a snowcapped mountain.

A slowing down to evaluate where God has led us to this point in life. Taking the time to listen to His Voice and letting Him draw us the way we should go.

It’s not always in the flashy, colorful settings that He gets our attention. What might He want to communicate in the dull season—when our ears might be open?

Rest the Body; Refresh the Soul

If there is ever a time to park it in a chair and hold our feet to the warmth of the fire in the grate, that might in winter. It might be now.

Let our ears tune into God’s Voice in our ears in a restful season.

For body and soul.

“Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest” (Psalm 55:6 NKJV).