Tip Your Head Back

Save me, O God, for the waters have risen to my neck. Psalm 69:2

Ok…it’s been quite a week and I’m still hangin on to the same verse I was clinging to on Monday.  As it turns out, it’s a jewel!  Since Monday I think it’s fair to say that the water rose from my neck to my nose!  As I was thinking about it this afternoon I remembered back to swimming lessons when I was a little girl. Just for the record, I HATED swimming lessons.  I remember the required trip into the deep end and that feeling of complete helplessness when I realized my feet couldn’t touch bottom and I had nothing to grab on to.  The instructor would yell, relax, close your mouth and tip your head back so the water won’t go up your nose. I didn’t enjoy anything about that feeling.

That feeling has been a familiar one this week but I discovered something I never learned in swimming lessons.  When you close your mouth and tip your head back so you can breathe, you are automatically looking up.  Quietly looking up is always a good idea and this week it’s a practice that has meant survival and surprisingly, great joy!  I’ve crammed way too much into the past two weeks but as the waters rose, I kept asking God to keep me from drowning.  Not only did he answer but he blessed me with lots of little surprises along the way. He arranged every detail, every time table and every event.  Things may not have been completed as early or fast as I wanted but it all got finished.  I had help when I didn’t expect it, laughter when it was most needed and great friends along the way.  I even managed to score front row parking a couple of times when I’d peeled into the parking lot at the last minute. 

I’ve had to reach out and ask for help and my family has had to eat left-overs a couple nights this week but it all fell in place. I’m in awe of the way God can swoop in and put things in order if we just close our mouth, tip our head back and look up to the giver of life and the master of all time and tasks.  Perhaps I should try that more often!

A Seed To Plant: Tip your head back, close your mouth and look up to the giver of life and enjoy your day!

Blessings on your day!