There is highway repair outside our apartment. The work requires installation of large metal coverings over the roadbed when traffic is allowed through the work area. Those metal coverings are secured rather loosely and when trucks cross those coverings, it sounds like thunder...over and over and over.About 4 a.m. that noise awakens me and I have great difficulty getting back to sleep. I become frustrated, annoyed and agitated which makes sleep impossible.
My husband, who sleeps through the whole thing, suggests I think of the noise simply as background noise...something that is there but not really very important. It's like the worries that annoy and agitate us at night---thoughts and worries that are there but that we really can't do anything about---certainly not at 4 a.m.
How do we do that? How do we put the thoughts and worries at 4 a.m. as "background noise?"
We do it by placing those worries in God's hands. We say a quiet prayer that we sense His presence and His desire to hold those worries, that noise, so we can rest and our minds be quiet. He takes away the thunder and we receive His peace.
What worries, what noise in your life needs to be placed in the background? Today can you place those worries in God's hands knowing He is with you?
Blessings-Penny
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