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Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light for my path. 

– Psalm 119:105

Tip Your Head Back

11/11/2019

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

These past few weeks have been pretty nutty!  My to-do list goes to prayer with me each morning and I know God will organize it all for his glory but there are a few times I’ve been a little overwhelmed.  As I was  working my way through the tasks of  the past many days I was encouraged when 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 these past few days 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 we have had to eat left-overs a few times 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!


2 Comments
Pat
11/11/2019 11:57:29 am

As always you nail my day. Thank you. My head will be tipped with mouth closed. That

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Janet pynn link
11/21/2019 07:13:32 am

I will remember to tip my head up and take a deep breath all day today💕

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