Chels in Progress

This week has been so exhausting. Three days in, I sat alone, feeling numb.  I didn't know what to think, how to react, what to feel.  So my brain chose numbness.  As an INFJ, I don't like numbness.  Feeling is my norm.  I hated the indifference, the cloudiness.  I prayed God wouldn't harden my heart. As easy as it was to send prayer requests out to my closest friends, I found it hard to pray myself.  I didn't trust; I was so short on faith.  My heart was guarded.  I was overwhelmed by dryness of the people around me, people who didn't speak truth, who didn't pray and praise and proclaim His glory in the midst of our trial. Tonight, my numbness, mistrust, my dry spell, my lack of faith– all of it b r o k e . Oh my soul, praise the Lord.  I will exalt Thee, I will rest in You. But I will sing of You strength and will joyfully proclaim Your faithful love in the morning. For You have been a stronghold for me, a ...

When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen: "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!" "Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!"  Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!" "I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out." Luke 19:37-40 NIV "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.  Which of all these does not know that the hand of YHWH has done this?   In His hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind." Job 12:7-10 My soul is refreshed after taking off to Utah for five days and getting away from routine, customer service, and socia...