Never Ceasing

It was still dark when I woke up.

No use staying in bed, I thought, I’m wide awake now. Thoughts came flooding in and my brain responded by reporting for duty. I could either lie here in bed and rehash my worries or I could get up. I had already tried praying, but that only kept me focused on the things I was concerned over. Somehow, I would always transition from praying to obsessing. I kept interrupting myself as I tried to talk to God.

So I went downstairs. My dogs, in their beds, looked at me as if to say, “What are you doing up? It’s still dark.”

And it was dark... It felt dark. Yesterday was still heavy on my mind. Solutions to problems seemed to elude me. I decided to have some coffee and read my Bible.

It went a little something like this:

Psalms

Mind trails off..

Genesis

Mind trails off

iPhone

Return some texts, check social media, news headlines, try to keep my mind from trailing back off to my pain over a certain situation.

But it does anyway. How can I fix this? What can I do?

Suddenly, I looked up. The sky had grown light.

Somehow, as I was looking down at my coffee, at my bible, at my phone

Somehow, as I was looking down in the dark

Dawn arrived.

And I didn’t even notice it.

I looked at the little piece of sky I could see through my window and there-

THERE-

There, I finally found focus. If there is one thing I can count on, it is this: no matter how dark the night, there is always a morning on the way, right on time. It is set, it is scheduled.

And I went from “Stop the world, I want to get off,”

to

“I am so glad the world keeps on spinning.”

Because at least that I can count on. I will focus on this one guarantee from God:

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease. Gen 8:22

And with this new morning, I was that much further away from yesterday. And I realized that God has sewn hope into the very fabric of creation.

So that when we get bogged down in our troubles, looking down in the dark

He sends the dawn, bringing with it a new day.

Every

Single

Time.