Back to the Beginning – The Presence

The Presence is available to you all the time – to come in and quiet your fears. The problem is we are convinced that we have to do something special – be somewhere special, say something special, “do the right thing” – in order to get it. The thing about the Gift is that it is just that – a Gift. This is also the beauty of the Gospel: as soon as you want it, you can have it. It might take some practicing of the Presence, but what is more important and life-giving than that?

None of these things around us will be enough to calm the unsettled feeling within us, except the Presence. You get less comfortable circumstances and the fears abound. You get more comfortable circumstances and the things around you which were supposed to offer so much solace fail because they are only things, not the Person who made you and holds you.

And when the Presence is there, it creates this sense that everything around you – circumstances, things and even the pain – are there to comfort you and form you. You can be thankful for all of them like you are thankful for the ability to breathe and the rain. Hopefully we will always come back to this truth – that God is there and available.

 


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