Finding “It”

Finding “It”

You know how it is – there is always that undercurrent part of us.  The sub-surface piece of us that is searching, looking, questioning, hoping to establish the “it” that we consider the ultimate place of being.  For me the “it” is knowing and having peace.  Peace that is not out of my own creation, but a wholistic place of being settled in mind, body and soul.  Though fleeting, I am assured, that this state is of God, from God.  Peace is clearly identifiable.  

You may call it a “God” moment or you may be learning to identify these times.  I am able to most clearly identify them when I am in times of turmoil, or simply just questioning or seeking.  Likely there is something that I am thinking over, struggling with seeking the right direction.  It is in my prayers and thoughts, dogging me, unsettling me until I think I have exhausted all the options or directions. You notice that I didn’t say solutions, right?  There are always multiple solutions to any circumstance. However, my desire is to function with the best solution which provides the best outcome for the circumstance. Talk about a double edged sword – each of us has our own idea of what is best.  So let me clarify, my best means listening to what God is saying about whatever “it” is.

I have come to wait upon these moments, the times when “it” is given to me.  In this process, I do not – can not – have an expectation of the bigger picture God will reveal. I just know that God comes.  God reveals.  In God’s time.  The identifier that says God is in this, is the peace that over runs the banks of my consternation’s, questions and wanderings.  That is “it”! The understanding is solid, concrete.  These moments are clear as I wake from a night of sleep.  Prayer and meditation can be times of listening and revelation.  As I pray, the prayer and words begin to slow, and my thoughts are moved from where I am to praying to out of what God is revealing.  Listening to God shapes prayer with understandings that redirect me to know God’s will.  And, oddly enough, I am not the only one who has said that “shower time” can be a place of “it” moments. Something about the soothing, pouring waters, surrounded by sound and feel of water displacing all distractions.  Think about baptismal waters.  That extraordinary moment of immersion when you give self over under water and rise in new life in Christ.  I wonder, are shower moments little baptisms at times?

I can only offer out of my own experience is that “it” moments are consistently, truly God moments.  God wants a living relationship with us. God desires to give us peace and hope.  Where ever the place of revelation comes for each of us, we are moved to a deeper part, a quieter awareness of being.  And there “it” is! Out of the blue – “it” comes.  Our being encounters God.

The revelation that I have been seeking, searching, longing for relief from is given.  Knowing God’s will is peace. Peace floods my spirit, there is a quickening of my senses and I know this gift is not out of my own understanding. That alone brings delight!  God is inspiring, shaping, challenging and at times, daring me to take new action, or none.  In fresh insight from God allows me to move in faith with peace and certainty. 

Praying that you will find “it” as you seek, that you will claim your peace as given from God, and delight in the relationship that unfolds with each new day. I love you, am praying for you and God loves you far beyond what we can think or imagine!

Pastor Lisa

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