"Peace" in this storm...

Since last May our MOPS (Mothers Of Preschoolers) group has planned to have a light hearted November meeting.  A fun speaker on a light topic with a cool craft.  I hadn't thought much of it until I was preparing for our Steering meeting last Monday.  Something didn't feel right - it could have been that I was listening to talk radio and basically they made it sound like the sky was falling (or in this case the DOW).  Anyway, I turned off the radio and turned on my iPod.  The song that came on was "Mighty to Save" - you might know it, it's one of my favorites! "Savior, He can move the mountains.  Our God is mighty to save..." etc.  Anyway, it stuck in my head!  The rest of the afternoon, there it was.  Driving to the meeting, still there - in fact it was in the back of my mind throughout the meeting.  I had to leave the meeting a little early and had a sort of unfinished feeling.  I justified that with "Oh well, it always works out - we'll come up with something..."  Well at 3:17 am I woke up - I remember the time because I was so awake I looked at the clock thinking it must be about 6:00 - nope!  Immediately I started thinking about MOPS again.  You know how things always explode in your mind in the middle of the night...  For the next 2 hours I was awake.  Doing everything in my own power to will myself back to sleep.  Finally at around 5:00 it dawned on me that I needed to pray - so I did.  Nothing really came to me regarding MOPS, but I immediately fell asleep.  There is just something very calming about handing everything over to my Heavenly Father.  I don't know why it took me 2 hours to figure that one out - but I digress...

That next morning I went on with my day and around 2:00 pm I started checking email and was kind of overwhelmed by the number of emails I had from friends or forwards that spoke of "worry" and "stress" at this time in their lives.  Then I opened up an email from our Staff liason that echoed this as well, but in regards to our MOPS group and it seemed to hit both of us at the same time that we need to make some changes for November and bring in someone that can speak to our mom's about "stress" and dealing with it from a Biblical perspectives as both moms and wives.  I tell you all of this to remind you that just when we think we can fix everything on our own and in our own strength He reminds us that He is in control and He is the one that holds the future.  He already knew He didn't want us to stay on our original topic for November - I was just very hard of hearing!

That afternoon, after we made the decision to change the meeting and the wheels were in motion, I went where I should have gone from the start - to scripture.  That song was STILL in my head so I decided to look it up!  I knew it was in Zephaniah, but didn't know the reference so I "googled" it... there is was right on the screen in BIG BLACK LETTERS!  Zephaniah 3:17 - I had seen that number before!  It is amazing how God speaks to His children, if only I would have listened sooner, I would have saved my self from a sleepless night and a little anxiety! 

Zephaniah 3:17 "The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save!  He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing!"

How wonderful to know that in these troubling times He holds the future!!  The God who can move mountains delights in little old me and just when I think I can't do it any more He quiets me with His love and shows me how much He cares.  Cool!