Take a Drink
A couple of days ago, I woke up a lot earlier than I normally do. I had a headache and the first thing my husband said to me was, “Have you been drinking enough water?”
I am not much of a water drinker. I drink a lot of coffee and my drink of choice is LaCroix so technically I am drinking some water through the day.
So I got out of bed, took a couple of Tylenol and decided to take advantage of the quiet time and start my morning like I always do in prayer and reading my Bible and morning devotions. Usually I am doing this as Chad is watching the news so it isn’t exactly “quiet”.
It was interesting because the scripture I focused on was 2 Corinthians 5:17.
““Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.””
After I finished my quiet time, I decided I should take advantage of the early morning and go for a run. I do not typically run in the morning. I kind of savor my slow start to the day with the kids not in school and drink my coffee, and slowly get ready for the day.
My go to podcast while I run is “Revelation Fitness” by Alissa Keeton. This morning she preached on Genesis 1 “Living Water”. How fitting since Chad had just been giving me a hard time about getting more water into my body.
One of the notes I have in my Prayer Journal for today was “What is God working on in me right now?”
In this quiet season, I am trying to take advantage of working on my spiritual and physical health and hopefully both of those things will help me with my mental health.
I don’t know about you, but I really am trying to focus on positivity, because right now when it seems like life took a sudden halt, my mind can go to a very sad and lonely place quickly. I remind myself and my family often that “God is Good All the Time”.
I told a friend this week that I keep praying for God to work a miracle in this pandemic and she reminded me that, “Oh he will, but it will be on His timing and not our timing”. I know this is true, but I am praying hard that He will show up big in our world and people will see Him move in this.
So if you are feeling down and sad right now, dump out all of those feelings and fill yourself up with Living Water. Spend some time in prayer, read a short devotion, just go sit outside, in the quiet and take in all of the beauty that surrounds us.
Just another quick note on my run the other day, as I started to run, it started to rain and my thought was God was smiling down and laughing at me. Sometimes, it takes quite a lot for me to get His point.
