Too much is going on and I don’t know what to say. I could write about what has been going on in Cameroon for the past 4 years aggravated by last week’s attack on school children. Or I can write about police brutality and protests in Nigeria and in Philadelphia. I could write something to prepare us for the U.S. presidential elections next week. Or I could share a poem I wrote some years ago as an example of writing to heal through trauma. There is too much going on in the world and many of us are tired including myself. I don’t think I have much to say right now. So, I figured I shut up and direct you to words from The Wisest Being that ever has lived and ever will live.
I am reminded that in all the worries and issues that I can’t solve in this life, God sees and hears. And God asks us to bring our concerns to Him. God is the only One who can truly give us peace in the midst of the storm. God has true answers through it all. As we do our work that we are called to do here on earth, that’s all we can do. The rest is up to God and He is big enough to take care of His world. Therefore, draw closer to Him during this period as God says in Isaiah 55 (NIV):
“Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a ruler and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.”
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,
for an everlasting sign,
that will endure forever.”
